Good tool for archiving to media?

Dan Coutu coutu at snowy-owl.com
Thu May 29 18:04:10 EDT 2008


Nigel Stewart wrote:
>> I've started archiving our family photos to Amazon's S3 storage cloud.  
>>     
>  > Recurring cost for about 8GB is about $.77/mo and I consider it a bit
>  > more fire/theft/water resistant than a fire safe in my basement.
>
> I was thinking of somehow using FUSE to "mount" an encrypted
> S3 storage cloud for backup purposes.  Then cronning an rsync
> on top of that.  Any thoughts?
>
> - Nigel
>   
Yeah, check out the s3sync utility. Provides rsyncing to an s3 storage 
area all in one go. No fuse needed but
you do need ruby.

Dan


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