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

[Greg Freemyer]

On Mon, Aug 25, 2008 at 7:21 PM, Chris Wilson
<address@hidden> wrote:
> 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.

Hey Chris,

I've been deleting the articles about most of the Amazon Cloud instead
of reading them, so a couple questions if you happen to know.

I gather the ECC is basically a virtual server with a full OS
installation?  (I currently have one on those at a provider that I run
our company website on.)

If so, could I consolidate my current webserver virtual Server and
then add on the EBS storage to backup our fileservers to it?

Not sure how the ECC is priced, but EBS includes per i/o pricing.
Would that be a lot for a rdiff-backup backend server?

Also, is anyone already doing something like this?  Personally, I use
rdiff-backup to a local drive, then rsync the whole repository offsite
to a online storage vendor.  I'm currently paying about $75/month for
250GB of repository.

Thanks
Greg
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