Hi Mark,
On Fri, Jun 26, 2009 at 08:28:32AM -0700, Mark Phillips wrote:
> I am looking for inexpensive off-site storage that is compatible with
> backuppc.
In my opinion, off-site storage and backup don't go together. After all,
your backups contain all of your important (and possibly secret) data. I
wouldn't want to store these on some online-service.
> Is anyone using backuppc to backup files to Amazon S3? I have googled for
> some articles on this topic, and all I have found are old ones. It seems
> 1. S3 does not "allow" hard links and use of rsync. There is a s3sync
> option, but I haven't looked a it.
> 2. Using an EC2 front end running backuppc might work, and then storing to
> s3. Haven't found any backuppc articles about this.
I'm not familiar with S3 or EC2. Currently, BackupPC requires direct
access to a posix file system with hardlink support. And it does quite
stress the file system!
Tino.
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