S3 Backups provides easy scripts that system administrators can use to backup data from programs likes PostgreSQL, MySQL, Redis, etc.
Note: S3 Backups is no longer being maintained. S3_dumps was forked of of this repository and is trying to make improvements. Feel free to check it out.
To install s3-backups:
$ sudo pip install s3-backups
Documentation is available at http://s3-backups.readthedocs.org/.