Re: [rdiff-backup-users] Any plans for Amazon S3 support?

[Chris Wilson]

Hi Greg,

On Mon, 25 Aug 2008, Greg Freemyer wrote:

> I took a look at S3's pricing today and it is pretty good. 
> ($0.15/GB/month)  http://aws.amazon.com/s3
> 
> The trouble from a rdiff-backup perspective is that it has a custom API.
> 
> I'd like to see rdiff-backup have support for backing up to S3, but that 
> may be much difficult than I expect.
> 
> So count this as a vote for S3 support.

Have you looked at Amazon EBS? With this, you should be able to back up to 
an ECC instance running rdiff-backup, and save the resulting filesystem 
images on S3.

Cheers, Chris.
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