Re: [Duplicity-talk] Support for AWS S3 "Infrequent Access" Storage Option

[edgar . soldin]

On 03.10.2015 10:34, Min-Zhong "John" Lu / 呂敏中 wrote:
> Hi Duplicity folks,
> 
> Amazon recently announced a new S3 storage class, Infrequent Access: 
> https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/aws/aws-storage-update-new-lower-cost-s3-storage-option-glacier-price-reduction/
>  . Its storage price is lower than Reduced Redundancy but has a higher 
> per-access price tag.
> 
> I have enjoyed duplicity's support on storing volumes to S3 directly on 
> Reduced Redundancy class ( --s3-use-rrs option). And for my own use cases, I 
> believe IA is a more cost-effective option for me, so I'm wondering how I 
> might let duplicity to directly store volumes to S3 on IA classes.
> 
> Thus I'm wondering if support for new S3 storage classes will be planned for 
> future duplicity versions. Also -- if it's at all possible -- is there any 
> kind of quick hacks I can do to enable such support on my own machine? (I can 
> re-build my version from source, for sure)
> 

i guess that they introduced a new storage class value. see how it is done for 
rrs
 
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