XP-Dev.com Documentation - Amazon S3 Backups
With all XP-Dev.com accounts, you can get real-time backups of your Subversion repositories sent to Amazon Simple Storage Service (S3).
How it works
Everytime you commit a changeset to your Subversion repository, XP-Dev.com will take an incremental backup and send it an S3 bucket that’s owned by you.
XP-Dev.com will charge you $2/month to use this service and Amazon will charge you separately for using their service. With Amazon’s pay-as-you-go pricing plans for S3, you only pay for what you store there.
Additionally, you can retrieve these backups at any time at your leisure.
Enabling Amazon S3 Backups
Payment
- Head over to the Amazon S3 Backup page.
- Pay for your service.
- You can choose pay monthly or yearly. Yearly payments are entitled to a 20% discount and only cost $19.20/year.
- Additionally, you can choose to pay each installment manually or automatically.
- You will get an email once the subscription is active (takes a few seconds after payment for Paypal to process it).
Configuration
- Head back to the Amazon S3 Backup page.
- Enter your Amazon AWS Access Key, AWS Secret Key, a bucket name and if it needs to be created.
- XP-Dev.com does not store your keys, and will just use it to configure the bucket’s permissions so that it can send files to it.
- Once your bucket has been configured, you will see a list of repositories that you own.
- Select the repositories you’d like to be backed up
- Click on Save
- Your backup files will be saved as keys in the following format: unique id/repository name/start revision/end revision
- For example, if your repository called testrepo had a unique id 4890, then the backup revisions from 0 to 212 will be stored under 4890/testrepo/0/212
Disabling Amazon S3 Backups
- Head over to the Amazon S3 Backup page.
- Unselect the repositories that you don’t want backed up
- Click on Save
To stop the backups entirely and cancel the subscription, just raise a support ticket
XP-Dev.com will not delete any files from your bucket. If there’s anything there that you don’t want, you will have to delete it yourself.
Retrieving Backups
There are a dedicated project called XP-Dev.com Amazon S3 Backup Tools that has all the details on how to download your backups and even check that they are consistent.