Comments on: S3 in Business: 6 – A slow interlude http://cardbox.wordpress.com/2006/08/19/s3-in-business-6/ Designing, building, selling and supporting a leading End User Database Sat, 22 Mar 2008 01:20:32 +0000 http://wordpress.com/ hourly 1 By: Chris http://cardbox.wordpress.com/2006/08/19/s3-in-business-6/#comment-445 Chris Sat, 02 Sep 2006 03:16:16 +0000 https://cardbox.wordpress.com/2006/08/19/s3-in-business-6/#comment-445 Fortunately, my university has an OC-3 to the Internet (and an OC-12 to Internet2--if only Amazon would strike up a partnership with them!), so my data transfer rate to Amazon S3 might be higher than yours. However, if the limit is on Amazon's side and the roughly 3.5Mbps upload rate you show is all I'll be able to get, my calculations show that backing up my 100GB drive (which is 95% full) will take me about two and a half days. (If I could commandeer the entire OC-3, were plugged into a gigabit Ethernet port, and Amazon could take it all, I could theoretically get my entire drive backed up in less than two hours--but I wouldn't count on that.) Two and a half days is still a long time, and I'm bound to take my laptop away with me sometime in those 60 hours and lose the connection. But, it might be acceptable with a service that automatically resumes from where it left off if the connection is disrupted--I think JungleDrive does that. In any case, once the initial data is backed up, incremental changes should create much lower data transfer times. I wonder if this is the development that will finally result in a push for higher upload speeds to residential Internet connections... Fortunately, my university has an OC-3 to the Internet (and an OC-12 to Internet2–if only Amazon would strike up a partnership with them!), so my data transfer rate to Amazon S3 might be higher than yours. However, if the limit is on Amazon’s side and the roughly 3.5Mbps upload rate you show is all I’ll be able to get, my calculations show that backing up my 100GB drive (which is 95% full) will take me about two and a half days. (If I could commandeer the entire OC-3, were plugged into a gigabit Ethernet port, and Amazon could take it all, I could theoretically get my entire drive backed up in less than two hours–but I wouldn’t count on that.)

Two and a half days is still a long time, and I’m bound to take my laptop away with me sometime in those 60 hours and lose the connection. But, it might be acceptable with a service that automatically resumes from where it left off if the connection is disrupted–I think JungleDrive does that. In any case, once the initial data is backed up, incremental changes should create much lower data transfer times.

I wonder if this is the development that will finally result in a push for higher upload speeds to residential Internet connections…

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