[besson3c]

I'm not sure what section of the forum I'd put this in if I were to write this, but would there be any interest in this how-to?

This guide would outline how to schedule s3cmd to conduct incremental backups of any of your files to Amazon S3 using either their standard or cheaper reduced redundancy storage. Amazon S3 is unique in that they charge for data transfer and storage, but for many people this might be far cheaper than using a competing cloud service.

Pricing: Amazon Simple Storage Service (Amazon S3)

Having an offsite backup is a good thing to have for dealing with physical area disasters and other catastrophic events, but using nice Amazon's Management Console it might actually be useful and/or handy for those that simply want to use it as their primary backup source.

[andi*pandi]

bah.

[besson3c]

It's kind of neither, but whatever you want

[mduell]

"Dropbox"

[besson3c]

Originally Posted by mduell 

"Dropbox"

It costs $4.65/month to store 50 gigs of space at Amazon.

[mduell]

That's the price of a decent client. Plus upload/download fees.

[besson3c]

I'm not here to sell you Amazon S3 if you are happy with Dropbox or anything else. For me Dropbox was not an option, so I figured I would offer to provide instructions for anybody else that was interested in Amazon S3. I take it you are not interested, nor does anybody else seem to be, so that's cool.

[Doofy]

Originally Posted by besson3c 

I take it you are not interested, nor does anybody else seem to be, so that's cool.

I'm not so sure that backing up 12 TB of files over a 256 kbps uplink is a good idea. Might take a while, no?

[besson3c]

I hear that floopy disks are cheap these days.

[Doofy]

Floopy? If anything in your possession is floopy then you need more Italian TV.

[besson3c]

How do you store your 12 TB of files, Doofy?

[turtle777]

For anyone that needs a flexible, secure client for the backups, I recommend Twin

-t

[Doofy]

Originally Posted by besson3c 

How do you store your 12 TB of files, Doofy?

Hard drives, RAID arrays.

[besson3c]

Originally Posted by turtle777 

For anyone that needs a flexible, secure client for the backups, I recommend Twin

-t

Hmmm... This actually makes a tutorial I'd write look unnecessary on the Mac side unless one wanted a free CLI solution.

I came from this needing a CLI solution that worked on Solaris, I didn't research any Mac GUI solutions since the data I will be backing up resides on my Solaris/ZFS box and I just figured I'd use the same solution on both platforms. However, I'm growing rather fond of Amazon S3, I'd definitely look at Twin if I ever wanted to do offsite backups of Mac data to S3.

I take it Twin supports backup to Amazon's reduced redundancy data storage?

[turtle777]

Originally Posted by besson3c 

I take it Twin supports backup to Amazon's reduced redundancy data storage?

They say they support Amazon S3.

From a technical perspective (access), Amazon S3 reduced redundancy data storage is not different than their other storage.

-t

[besson3c]

Originally Posted by turtle777 

They say they support Amazon S3.

From a technical perspective (access), Amazon S3 reduced redundancy data storage is not different than their other storage.

-t

Yeah, it just requires an additional header to be set...

[Person Man]

Originally Posted by Doofy 

Floopy? If anything in your possession is floopy then you need more Italian TV.

Best pair of comments on that video:

1. "What the f*** am I doing in England when Italy has such goddesses?"

2. "In Italy we have Berlusconi.....REMAIN IN ENGLAND!!!"