[Box Backup] Alternate server

[Chris Wilson]

Hi Stuart,

On Wed, 23 Apr 2008, Stuart D. Gathman wrote:

> > * S3 does not support the client-server bandwidth efficiency stuff 
> >   that bbackupd does when talking to bbstored, so you have to run 
> >   bbstored on an EC2 server
> 
> So client is not trivially adapted for S3.  It is easier to specialize 
> the server to use S3 for backend.  Especially when it needs to handle 
> nastiness like the above.

Yes.

> > * Testing all this would get expensive for me (monthly charges for an EC2 
> >   server and S3 account and storage of test data)
...
> For this, just use a local web server with PUT/DELETE enabled.  Put
> warnings in, and rely on early adopters to test with actual S3.  Should
> just be a change of URL and authentication.

How will I know that it behaves the same as S3? Especially with regard to 
some features that might be useful, such as partial file retrieval with 
Byte-Range. Also, what webserver supports this?

Cheers, Chris.
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