title: Creating an Amazon EC2 Backup solution to Amazon S3
body: <p>I currently use Amazon S3 as a backup location for my local machines - Primarily using JungleDisk to backup nightly all my local files to my S3 account.</p>
  
  <p>I have been looking at creating a more intelligent backup solution for remote files - Websites on Windows and Linux boxes, along with SQL Server and MySQL databases.</p>
  
  <p>I have been pondering the idea of creating an Amazon EC2 instance which can operate in the cloud as my remote backup machine - Ideally, some sort of script or schedule would trigger the machine to start, and when it does, it would execute a variety of tools or scripts to connect to and back-up my web servers, backing everything up to my Amazon S3 account. Hopefully, when complete the instance can be programmed to shut-down saving execution time.</p>
  
  <p>Am I dreaming? Is this a possibility? Can anyone point me in the right direction?</p>
  
  <p>Thanks,</p>
  
  <p>GW</p>