How can I backup my whole server image into AWS S3?

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Published on 2010-03-17T09:56:11Z Indexed on 2010/03/17 10:01 UTC
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I have few servers on Linode.com, which does not provide a smooth way for backing up a whole image at the moment. Backing up to S3 could be a way to copy the whole image. It should be also a cheap way. Do you have experience, tips or scripts doing backup of a whole image into S3?

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