Somebody suggested using Amazon EC2 to provide an incremental backup interface to S3. For the likes of rsync to be truly effective, you need to have an rsync program running near the data store. It struck me, you could use an EC2 instance with free, high-speed bandwidth to S3 to do exactly that.
Using S3fuse (currently [...]
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Incremental Backup on Amazon EC2 / S3
Posted in Ideas, Techy Also tagged amazon backup, amazon ec2, ec2, rsync, s3, s3 backup, s3 incremental backup 5 Comments
Goodbye Rsync.net, Hello Amazon S3
Update 27-Nov-2008: In the end I stayed with rsync.net.
Today I’ve decided I’m fed up with my current backup provider, rsync.net. The service they provide is pretty solid, I’ve been using it for a few months now. The main reason I chose them at $1.80 per Gb instead of Amazon at around $0.30 per Gb is [...]
Amazon S3
Amazon S3 is a static file hosting service from Amazon. Storage costs $0.15 USD per Gb and data transfer (outgoing) costs $0.18 USD per GB up to 10TB. As an online backup solution, it would cost less than $20 / month to store 100Gb, assuming you’re not uploading / downloading more than 20% every month.
That’s [...]
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