Oh yeh.. duplicity has recently added support for S3/EC/etc.. storage.
Shane R. Spencer wrote:
> I haven't started using an s3 account yet, but I'm going to try it out
> soon. I'ts been really hard to beat rsync to rsync.net who also uses
> the scponly shell for their users.. It's nice being able to control how
> I sync everything on my own terms, use svn, use unison, use rsync, all
> over ssh. Lets not forget using MY OWN encryption instead of just
> trusting all is well.
>
> My main use of rsync.net is personal svn repositories and duplicity
> backups (gpg encrypted tar files).
>
> They also offer a geo-redundant storage solution. Whenever your file is
> closed it duplicates it to one of their other sites. I'm sure Amazon
> does a similar thing.. I know the rackspace cloud system works
> similarly, however those are diversified between servers in it's own
> low-latency cloud (distributed hash tables ftw) vs to servers in
> different datacenters.
>
> Food for thought. I'll try S3 soon.
>
> Shane
>
> Joshua J. Kugler 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.
>>
>> j
>>
>
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