[SATLUG] Amazon S3

[John Pappas]

I am a little late, but I may have some useful info for those interested...
On Nov 27, 2007 9:37 PM, David Kowis <dkowis at shlrm.org> wrote:
> 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?

Amazon S3 is a web service only, so there is no native S3 service
listening for the RSync.  I use InfiniteBits (~5$/mo) for FTP and WWW
access.  Their "Enterprise" service allows basically anything you
want, since it runs EC2 instance(s) on your behalf, so a properly
configured instance can listen for whatever you want.

> >>>  This is my primary interest.

Understandably.  If you find a solution that works, let me know!
Presumably, you could add an S3 module to rsync to allow the alternate
target,  I have used jets3t's synchronize (requires Java) to upload
files via cron.  It is not rsync, but the net is the same.

> 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 ;)

I use it for myself, my business, and 3 of my customers using it.  2
Customers are windows, and only require that the week's backups be
uploaded automatically, so I use Super Flexible File Syncronizer
(www.superflexible.com) running as a service.  I considered using
JungleDisk and S3Drive, but like the email notification capability and
flexibility of SFFS.  For myself and my business, I use SFFS
(Commercial App), JetS3T (Java), Brackup (Perl), S3Fox (Firefox
Extension), Infinitebits.info (Service), and BucketExplorer, depending
on the need.

Here is my November Usage (my first "heavy" month):
 November 1 - November 6, 2007  	   	   	
  	  	$0.15 per GB-Month of storage used
	4.083 GB-Mo 	0.61
  	  	$0.10 per GB - all data transfer in
     6.456 GB   	0.65
  	  	$0.18 per GB - first 10 TB / month data transfer out 	
0.016 GB 	        0.01
  	  	$0.01 per 1,000 PUT or LIST requests 	
129 Requests 	0.01
  	  	$0.01 per 10,000 GET and all other requests 	              9
Requests 	0.01
  	  	  	  	
                                1.29
  November 6 - November 30, 2007 	  	  	
  	  	$0.15 per GB-Month of storage used                        22.601
GB-Mo 	3.39
  	  	$0.10 per GB - all data transfer in
	84.436 GB 	8.44
  	  	$0.18 per GB - first 10 TB / month data transfer out 	0.084 GB 	0.02
  	  	$0.01 per 1,000 PUT or LIST requests 	                  816 Requests 	0.01
  	  	$0.01 per 10,000 GET and all other requests 	    15 Requests 	0.01
  	  	  	  	
                       11.87
                                                  	
                                    13.16

HTH,
John