Re: [Duplicity-talk] Migrate from local to S3 target

[Ed Blackman]

On Mon, Mar 15, 2010 at 06:21:09AM +0200, Avi Rozen wrote:
> Ed Blackman wrote:
> > I've been testing out duplicity for almost a year to a local target. 
> > I'm considering a move to S3, but would want to retain the backups I
> > took in that time.  Is there a way to copy the local target backups to
> > S3?  If it were a remote FTP, SSH, webdav backend, I think it would be
> > easy enough to copy them, but I've got no idea how to do that for S3. 
> > Any suggestions?
>
> I did this with s3cmd [1], which is available on Debian/Ubuntu via
> aptitude/synaptic:
> s3cmd sync <local-dir> <s3://bucket/prefix>

So I could just do that, then access it through the 
s3+http://bucket/prefix target URL?  Great, that's much simpler than I 
thought it would be.

> Depending on the amount of data, this can take quite a while (8 days in
> my case).

Certainly, but thanks for the warning.

> I also moved the local duplicity cache from ~/.cache/duplicity/<url
> md5sum> to a different directory, and started using the --archive and
> --name command line options - instead of having duplicity regenerate the
> cache from the remote files.

I've been using --archive-dir and --name already, so no problem there.

Thanks for the help!

Ed

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