Hi all,

I have started to use unfuddle recently. I am looking for a method to develop a customized automated backup system through which I can achieve the following things:

(1) A weekly backup which will be done automatically.
(2) The backup of my entire (including every piece of data) unfuddle data will be placed in my Amazon S3 storage location.
(3) When the new backup is being placed it should remove the existing backup present in my Amazon S3 storage location and place the latest backup in it.

I don’t know whether Unfuddle supports anything like the above mentioned already. As I am assuming there is no such system I am intending to develop a system.

The idea is something like this. Using Unfuddle API I’ll download the entire data and using another set of code I’ll deal with the Amazon S3 storage section (they also supports a set of API).

My question is to is there any API through which I can download our entire unfuddle data?

Thanks in advance for your help

Regards

Jayaprakash

Jayaprakash,

As we mentioned in our email to you earlier, Unfuddle currently copies each new backup into your S3 account using a unique name that includes a timestamp. In this way, Unfuddle deliberately does NOT overwrite old backups in your S3 account.

If you must only retain 1 backup, I would suggest one of the following solutions:

1. Use Unfuddle’s built-in Amazon S3 support to backup weekly, but write a script that runs weekly to delete older backups from you S3 account, keeping your disk usage to a minimum.
2. Use the Unfuddle API (http://unfuddle.com/docs/api/projects#backups) to manually request a backup, download it automatically once it has been completed and then upload it to your Amazon S3 account manually. In this way, you could always overwrite the backup stored in your Amazon S3 account.