Comments on: S3 in Business: 1 – Introduction http://cardbox.wordpress.com/2006/08/14/s3-in-business-1/ Designing, building, selling and supporting a leading End User Database Sat, 22 Mar 2008 01:20:32 +0000 http://wordpress.com/ hourly 1 By: Off you go… into the purple yonder! » Amazon’s S3 and EC2 services http://cardbox.wordpress.com/2006/08/14/s3-in-business-1/#comment-531 Off you go… into the purple yonder! » Amazon’s S3 and EC2 services Sat, 07 Oct 2006 21:28:12 +0000 https://cardbox.wordpress.com/2006/08/14/s3-in-business-1/#comment-531 [...] Amazon Web Services is offering two relatively new services: ubiquitous storage via S3 and ‘elastic’ computing via EC2. The Cardbox folks have an in-depth analysis of S3 online, and Smugmug uses an S3 backend.This is very interesting. If it wasn’t for all the problems with the S3 contract, I would consider using this. [...] [...] Amazon Web Services is offering two relatively new services: ubiquitous storage via S3 and ‘elastic’ computing via EC2. The Cardbox folks have an in-depth analysis of S3 online, and Smugmug uses an S3 backend.This is very interesting. If it wasn’t for all the problems with the S3 contract, I would consider using this. [...]

]]> By: Simon http://cardbox.wordpress.com/2006/08/14/s3-in-business-1/#comment-412 Simon Tue, 15 Aug 2006 12:05:45 +0000 https://cardbox.wordpress.com/2006/08/14/s3-in-business-1/#comment-412 "Too good to be true? ..It makes data storage really, really dull and boring." It would be a lot more dull an boring, and a lot easier for the people that do the backups if S3 supported rsync. Without rsync support, I have a barrier to entry: I have to find something reliable (mature and tested) that will perform proper incremental backups. Without rsync support I can't use other backup programs built on top of it, such as duplicity, which encrypts the data before sending it to the remote server. “Too good to be true? ..It makes data storage really, really dull and boring.”

It would be a lot more dull an boring, and a lot easier for the people that do the backups if S3 supported rsync.

Without rsync support, I have a barrier to entry: I have to find something reliable (mature and tested) that will perform proper incremental backups.

Without rsync support I can’t use other backup programs built on top of it, such as duplicity, which encrypts the data before sending it to the remote server.

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