[Box Backup-dev] Re: [Box Backup] ChrisMerge_1828

[E.W. Peter Jalajas]

--- Chris Wilson <chris@qwirx.com> wrote:

Hola Chris,

> > (For the record, I'd rather Chris worked on the Windows named pipe issue 
> > so that we can get easy client-side geo-redundancy.
> 
> I'm on it ;-)

:^) !!!

> What is the 160GB limit? Virtual hard disk space in EC2?

Yes.  From their website:  "Each instance predictably provides the equivalent of a system with a
1.7Ghz x86 processor, 1.75GB of RAM, 160GB of local disk, and 250Mb/s of network bandwidth." 
 
> I wish we could back up direct to Amazon S3, but they don't offer the 
> necessary features for diffing, for example, to have a bandwidth-efficient 
> implementation. s3sync with encryption is about as good as you can get 
> right now.

Just to make sure I understand, with EC2 you get a Fedora server onto which you can install
anything.  Can you not install the diff-ing tool you need?  (I've installed Box Backup and lots of
other things into my bundled and registered EC2 image.)

> It would be very nice to be able to mount S3 as a drive in an EC2 image 
> and run bbstored in that image, especially as Amazon don't charge for 
> data transfer between EC2 and S3. But I don't know of any system to do 
> that at the moment. Perhaps a FUSE filesystem wouldn't be too hard to 
> write?

http://www.openfount.com/blog/s3dfs-release-notes  for about US$400.  I have a query into them now
to see if I can get a test image.  
 
> If someone could sponsor me either an S3 account or an EC2 server then I 
> could probably work on it. Alternatively, perhaps one of the newer S3 
> competitors will provide a more full-featured API.

I'll set you up.  I'll contact you off line.

Take care,
Pete