A while ago I posted to my personal blog the instructions for pushing nightly backups of all files and databases to Amazon S3. This has proven to be a fairly popular post.

At BlinkTag, we’ve used various versions of this script to help most of our clients make nightly backups. In several instances, this has proven to be invaluable when content gets lost or overwritten. The script, while somewhat inefficient, keeps a full backup from every day so its possible to revert the site back to any previous days status.

The script could work for backing up any site, not necessarily just wordpress based sites. It can grab any database you’d like an bundle it with the backup.

View the wordpress backup script
Let us know in the comments below if you have questions/comments or creative uses for this script.