[SATLUG] Amazon S3

[David Kowis]

Sean Carolan wrote:
> On Nov 27, 2007 8:45 PM,  <aaron_satlug at clamp.net> wrote:
>> On Tue, Nov 27, 2007 at 07:57:32PM -0600, Sean Carolan wrote:
>>> Is there a way to use rsync to back up your data into S3?  This is my
>>> primary interest.
>> Googling found a number of third-party offerings, some of which are
>> open-source.
> 
> Thanks for all the information, Aaron.  I'm probably going to hold out
> for a little while to see what Google has up its sleeve before I jump
> in with S3.

S3 is pretty cheap too. I'm considering using it as an offsite backup 
solution. Probably for no more than $10 a month, including operations 
and automagicness. Just encrypt all my backups using a gpg key and store 
them up there. Hard drive failure? no problem ;)