[aklug] Re: Amazon + Jungle Disk = awesome off site storage

From: Tom Simes <simestd@netexpress.com>
Date: Wed Mar 18 2009 - 13:17:54 AKDT

On Wed, 18 Mar 2009 13:06:19 -0800
"Joshua J. Kugler" <joshua@eeinternet.com> wrote:

> > $0.15 a Gigabyte! And it works in Linux! And it has a command-line
> > only version! And it has a 64-bit software version!
> >
> > (Christopher stops typing for a few minutes while his co-worker
> > performs CPR.)
> >
> > So, what's the catch? Do you have to give up your first-born or
> > something?
> >
> > So you had to pay extra for rsync option? Otherwise does it use
> > webdav, or what?
> >
> > And that should be about 122339 seconds, or about 34 hours, right?
> > (Didn't double check that...)
>
> I've been using S3 for a while now "directly." I have a setup for my
> parents that backs up their computers to a local server using bacula,
> and then syncs the bacula volumes up to S3 at night via the Ruby
> utility s3sync. Works very well. You don't need jungledisk, but it
> does make it a little friendlier.

Another option to consider is Tarsnap by Colin Percival.

http://www.tarsnap.com/

Tom
 
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