[double_h]

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.

[pritambarhate]

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...