backups

Current backup solutions for Drupal, like the backup module, tend to assume the site is kept inactive during backup, to avoid inconsistency problems; then export the DB and files, and archive them somehow, in order to restore the site in the event of a complete data loss.

While this is fine for smaller and less active sites, a better mechanism for bigger sites sould provide the ability to have:

Hello, I've recently submitted this patch for the backup module which allows automated regular backups of a Drupal installation to Amazon S3. It currently uses Geoffrey Gaudreault's Amazon S3 PHP class, which requires the Crypt_HMAC and (hacked) HTTP_Request PEAR modules, as well as forcing the site developer to alter some variables within the code of the class. I'm hoping the File API will offer a much easier way to integrate the backup.module with Amazon S3.