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

From: Royce Williams <royce@alaska.net>
Date: Wed Mar 18 2009 - 15:08:07 AKDT

Tom Simes wrote, on 3/18/2009 1:17 PM:
> 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!

> Another option to consider is Tarsnap by Colin Percival.

It also uses S3, but with encryption that only belongs to you.

He has some good analysis about how S3 measures usage in an 'odd' way:

http://www.daemonology.net/blog/2008-12-14-how-tarsnap-uses-aws.html
http://www.daemonology.net/blog/2009-01-19-broken-s3-sla.html

Royce

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