Hi Mark, On Fri, Jun 26, 2009 at 08:28:32AM -0700, Mark Phillips wrote: > I am looking for inexpensive off-site storage that is compatible with > backuppc.
In my opinion, off-site storage and backup don't go together. After all, your backups contain all of your important (and possibly secret) data. I wouldn't want to store these on some online-service. > Is anyone using backuppc to backup files to Amazon S3? I have googled for > some articles on this topic, and all I have found are old ones. It seems > 1. S3 does not "allow" hard links and use of rsync. There is a s3sync > option, but I haven't looked a it. > 2. Using an EC2 front end running backuppc might work, and then storing to > s3. Haven't found any backuppc articles about this. I'm not familiar with S3 or EC2. Currently, BackupPC requires direct access to a posix file system with hardlink support. And it does quite stress the file system! Tino. -- "What we nourish flourishes." - "Was wir nähren erblüht." www.lichtkreis-chemnitz.de www.craniosacralzentrum.de ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ _______________________________________________ BackupPC-users mailing list [email protected] List: https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/backuppc-users Wiki: http://backuppc.wiki.sourceforge.net Project: http://backuppc.sourceforge.net/
