Not the hardest thing to do, certainly not as complicated as I had thought it to be and next to perfect for my file server at home. Here is what I had to do:

1. get the brackup sources via svn (from http://code.sixapart.com/svn/brackup/trunk/)
2. on my Fedora 10 Server, I had to install perl-Net-Amazon-S3 and perl-DBD-SQLite via yum, ymmv
3. perl Makefile.pl, make and make install did their usual trick (you’ll end up with an installed program that is)
4. after that, just execute brackup in your home directory once: it will come up with a help message and create an example config file there (~/.brackup.conf)
5. Add your backup source description and S3 credentials there
6. to complete the configuration, you will also need your gpg key available (I had to create one with gpg –gen-key)

Now with a source like, say Documents configured, you can just brackup –from=Documents –to=amazon and it will just encrypt and backup everything in there to your S3 account. Stop making up excuses – start backing up your digital photos!

Here is an example config file:

[TARGET:amazon]
type = Amazon
aws_access_key_id     = xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
aws_secret_access_key = xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
keep_backups = 5

[SOURCE:Documents]
path = /home/steffen/Documents/
chunk_size = 5m
gpg_recipient = F179E120