Backup mysql database to amazon S3

Below is the simple code to create sql script of database on Amazon EC2 server using “mysqldump”…

then upload this sql script to Amazon S3 bucket using command line S3 tool “s3cmd”…

<?php

$sqlbackup=”/usr/bin/mysqldump -v -u root -h localhost -r /var/www/html/backup/”.date(”Y-m-d-H-i-s”).”_db.sql -pdbusername  databasename 2>&1″;

exec($sqlbackup, $o);
echo implode(”<br /> “, $o);

$file = “/var/www/html/backup/”.date(”Y-m-d-H-i-s”).”_db.sql”;
$bucket = “s3bucketname”;

exec(”/usr/bin/s3cmd  put –acl-public –guess-mime-type  –config=/var/www/html/.s3cfg   “.$file.”  s3://”.$bucket.”  2>&1″, $o);

echo implode(”<br /> “, $o);

?>