lennycloud:~# perl
perl: warning: Setting locale failed.
perl: warning: Please check that your locale settings:
LANGUAGE = (unset),
LC_ALL = (unset),
LANG = "en_US.UTF-8"
are supported and installed on your system.
perl: warning: Falling back to the standard locale ("C").

You're missing locales.

Update your apt database. sudo apt-get update

Download locales. sudo apt-get install locales

Now configure it, and download what locales you need. dpkg-reconfigure locales on Debian. sudo locale-gen en_US.UTF-8 on Ubuntu Hardy Heron 8.04 (Note: on server, you may be logged in as root).

I pick en_US ISO-8859-1, en_US.ISO-8859-15 ISO-8859-15 and en_US.UTF-8 UTF-8.

And that solves it.

Updated April 03, 2010 to include locale-gen.

screen ./s3sync.rb -r /home/tony/backups/ backup:backups -v

screen means you will be able to run the command as a screen process. ctrl-d to detach screen, screen -r to resume.

-r means recursive copy.

/home/tony/backups is where cron stores you backupps. You can replace this with whatever dir you want to sync.

backups is the name of the bucket. Do ./s3cmd createbucket to create your bucket

: is a seperator

backups is a prefix for the bucket.

-v means verbose, so you can see the progress in your screen.

If screen quits too fast, the command may not have worked.

If you detached and screen doesn't resume, your job may done, check your s3 to see if files transferred.

Also, make sure you have your s3config.yml file ready, you need to copy your key from your Amazon AWS account.

[07:02 AM][root@local ~/.s3conf]# ./s3cmd.rb
/usr/bin/env: ruby: No such file or directory

You don't have ruby installed. Easy.

sudo apt-get install ruby
or
yum install ruby


[07:02 AM][root@local ~/.s3conf]# ./s3cmd.rb
./S3.rb:14:in `require': no such file to load -- openssl (LoadError)
from ./S3.rb:14
from ./s3try.rb:26:in `require'
from ./s3try.rb:26
from ./s3cmd.rb:16:in `require'
from ./s3cmd.rb:16

Missing openssl libraries.

sudo apt-get install libopenssl-ruby