I needed a solid backup method for my clients websites, where I wanted to improve from the previous method of backing up to a separate host in the US Hostmonster. Hostmonster expires in 80 days, so why renew for $100+/year just to house a few GB of client backups.
I wanted to use the Amazon S3 service for my backups with an amazing reliability and a low monthly cost, so I  went ahead crawling the web for bash scripts that would suit my situation. The one I liked the most was Here, but …