Ed W wrote:
How are you backing up to S3? Most of the options I have seen have
some serious issues that limit reliable full backups? Its been on my
todo list for some time now to fix the C s3fs implementation that you
find here: http://code.google.com/p/s3fs/ - code is shocking and could
easily be fixed up pretty well...
http://s3tools.org/ - seems maintained, but not used it?
Brackup seems excellent, but has only an initial patch to support
backing up user permissions, so at this stage seems more useful for
data files than a whole system backup?
Also you have the option of cheap hosting through the likes of say
Dreamhost or Kimsufi
http://www.kimsufi.co.uk/ks/
£15/month for a single machine with a single 250GB (non backed up)
disk. Twice that price can get you multiple TB disks. Use this plus
rsync?
Not really sure where the sweet spot is here, but unsure what S3
really buys us?
I would imagine it would be some variation on dumping databases, making
tarballs, chopping up into <5GB pieces and then uploading them with
s3cmd (s3tools.org).
Over and above rented server storage, S3 should provide multi-site
redundancy (coverage against a plane making an unscheduled landing into
the data centre).
Bill
