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S3 backup and restore program

Backup is a Ruby Gem written for Unix and Rails environments. It can be used both with and without the Ruby on Rails framework! This gem offers a quick and simple solution to backing up databases such as MySQL/PostgreSQL and Files/Folders. All backups can be transferred to Amazon S3 or any remote server you have access to, using either SCP, SFTP or regular FTP. Backup handles Compression, Archiving, Encryption and Backup Cleaning (Cycling).

Nice for backing up low priority personal servers with multiple sites & accounts

See your coworkers. Totally not creepy.

Blanket is a flexible backup framework designed to get the drudgery out of the way and to make automated backups easy.

Easy upload management for ActiveRecord w/Google Storage option

Bookpress is a small gem that spits out a single HTML document, generated from an implicit directory structure of markdown files.

File attachments as attributes for ActiveRecord

Rails 3 Tumblog Engine

speed up repeated access to s3 data with a local cache

A Ruby library for capturing deployment configuration info from ec2 and future cloud services

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Choose the kitten!

Cloud Foundry auto-reconfiguration for Ruby

Cloud Foundry Runtime Library

A tool for syncing files between clouds

Static site generator

CSV Files: I hate them, you probably do too, but sometimes you need to get data into your system and this is the only way it's happening. If you're deploying a rails app in a cloud setup, you may have troubles if you're trying to store an uploaded file locally and process it later in a background thread (I know I have). cumulus_csv is one way to solve that problem. You can save your file to your S3 account, and loop over the data inside it at your convenience later. So it doesn't matter where you're doing the processing, you just need to have the key you used to store the file, and you can process away.

You can centralize all you backup policies on a single server, and then store dumps to many different hosts (SSH, S3, FTP).