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

[Chris Wilson]

Hi Pete,

On Fri, 14 Sep 2007, E.W. Peter Jalajas wrote:

>> 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.)

You could, but you'd still be limited to 160GB disk space. To get more 
than that with bbstored as it stands, you'd need to mount S3 as a 
filesystem.

> 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.

Will look into it.

>> 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.

Thanks!

Cheers, Chris.
-- 
_____ __     _
\  __/ / ,__(_)_  | Chris Wilson <0000 at qwirx.com> - Cambs UK |
/ (_/ ,\/ _/ /_ \ | Security/C/C++/Java/Perl/SQL/HTML Developer |
\ _/_/_/_//_/___/ | We are GNU-free your mind-and your software |