MySQL Enterprise Backup 3.10 support backups to the cloud. The only supported cloud service is Amazon S3. When the cloud destination is used mysqlbackup will upload the backup as an image file. You can specify all options on the commandline: mysqlbackup --cloud-service=s3 --cloud-aws-region=eu-west-1 \ --cloud-access-key-id=AKIAJLGCPXEGVHCQD27B \ --cloud-secret-access-key=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 \ --cloud-bucket=meb_myserver --cloud-object-key=firstbackup --cloud-trace=0 \ --backup-dir=/tmp/firstbackup --backup-image=- --with-timestamp backup-to-image But you can also put the settings in the my.cnf [mysqlbackup_cloud] cloud-service=s3 cloud-aws-region=eu-west-1 cloud-access-key-id=AKIAJLGCPXEGVHCQD27B cloud-secret-access-key=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 cloud-bucket=meb_myserver cloud-trace=0 backup-dir=/data/cloudbackup backup-image=- with-timestamp The with-timestamp option is important as the backup won't start if the backup-dir already...