Re: [Duplicity-talk] Large backups to S3

[j_duplicity]

Peter,

Have I completely missed the bus?  Are buckets no longer limited to 5GB?

-J

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On 04/03/10 09:13, Peter Schuller wrote:
> > How does duplicity handle S3 bucket overflows?  I have several hundred GB of
> > data in a large director tree that I would like to start backing up to S3.
> >   I'm really loath to attempt to partition this data into buckets by hand.
> >   I'm assume that duplicity can do some sort of magic for me?
> >      
> What "overflow" are you concerned with? Unless you're backing up
> petabytes of data (or whatever the limit would be) you can effectively
> consider your S3 bucket to be infinite in size.
>
> If you're backing up hundreds of gigs, I would suspect the concern's
> you'll have include:
>
> * Cost. You'll have to make periodic backups as you don't want an ever
> increasing chain of incremental backups.
> * Time to completion. If there is no parallelization backing up
> hundreds of GB of data will likely take significant time.
>
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