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Upgrade Django from 1.1 to 1.5.1. This highlights some of the issues that one may encounter when updating Django. It's not possible to cover every case, but this should provide a good general starting point.

Change to DATABASES variable in settings.py.

Django now supports multiple databases and changes are needed to how the database connections are defined.

• Changed in Django 1.2
• Change Required by Django 1.4
• Source:

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Backup MySQL to Amazon S3

This is a simple way to backup your MySQL tables to Amazon S3 for a nightly backup - this is all to be done on your server :-)

Sister Document - Restore MySQL from Amazon S3 - read that next

1 - Install s3cmd

this is for Centos 5.6, see http://s3tools.org/repositories for other systems like ubuntu etc