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Re:Ask HN: How do you back up your site hosted on a VPS such... by double_h on Sunday October 09, 2016 @04:06PM (#12673147)
Agree, s3cmd is simple and effective. I have written bash scripts to regularly take db dump and put it on S3. Same can be done for folders.
Re:Ask HN: How do you back up your site hosted on a VPS such... by pritambarhate on Monday October 10, 2016 @12:52AM (#12675115)
Also you can configure s3 buckets to delete files older than X days. For non critical projects I tend to set this at 30 days. This way the total storage used by the backups doesn't grow beyond a certain limit and helps you to control the spending.

Here are the relevant docs: http://docs.aws.amazon.com/AmazonS3/latest/dev/object-lifecy...