"You didn't set up your environment variable" error

[adam11216]

Hi All,

Let me start by saying that I think I'm in at least a couple inches over my head here, but I'd like to get this working. I'm getting the following error:

You didn't set up your environment variables; see README.txt
s3sync.rb [options] <source> <destination>              version 1.2.4
 --help    -h          --verbose     -v     --dryrun    -n
 --ssl     -s          --recursive   -r     --delete
 --public-read -p      --expires="<exp>"    --cache-control="<cc>"
 --exclude="<regexp>"  --progress           --debug   -d
 --make-dirs
One of <source> or <destination> must be of S3 format, the other a local path.
Reminders:
* An S3 formatted item with bucket 'mybucket' and prefix 'mypre' looks like:
   mybucket:mypre/some/key/name
* Local paths should always use forward slashes '/' even on Windows
* Whether you use a trailing slash on the source path makes a difference.
* For examples see README.

I can't figure out where I'm supposed to enter that info. I'm using the method from this post: http://robrohan.com/2007/11/03/server-backup-with-amazon-s3-howto/, and I have my access keys in a separate .yml file. Many thanks for any help.

[rosenhauer]

Under Windows I had to change the following

In the s3config.rb file update it so it looks in the local folder (where s3sync.rb) is for the config file.
  confpath = ["#{ENV['S3CONF']}", "#{ENV['HOME']}/.s3conf", "/etc/s3conf"]
to
  confpath = ["./", "#{ENV['S3CONF']}", "#{ENV['HOME']}/.s3conf", "/etc/s3conf"]

I didn't want to mess with the environment variables.

[adam11216]

brilliant! worked perfectly - many thanks.