On Sat, Feb 23, 2013, Hetz Ben Hamo wrote about "Re: Cloud Backup": > - You can use S3, but then the rsync could be problematic, since there > is no rsync "server" on the other side.
This is the part I'd need to code - run some sort of server process on EC2. I agree that it would be easier to do this with EBS, so I don't think I'll actually want to use S3 here (on an unrelated note, I do have a pretty good plan on how to do incremental backup to S3 without any server-side software, i.e., no code running on EC2 at all, but doing this will be more complicated than assuming I can run code on EC2). > - Amazon EBS is nice, but the Micro instance to use it with EBSis free > based on your usage. I used the free Micro instance as a slave DNS and > after 2 months I had to pay for it since my free usage has been somehow > finished. The difference here is that while DNS has to be always on - so it costs you 2 cents an hour for the whole month - my backup isn't always on, I can only turn it on when I want to back up, and then it will cost me 2 cents for a full hour (you can't pay for less than an hour). If I run it once every day and assuming the increments will rarely take more than an hour to send, this amounts to 60 cents a month, which is perfectly acceptable. > - You can use several scripts that you can find on Google to rsync with > Dropbox. I wonder how this can work without rsync support on the server side, but thanks, I'll look. -- Nadav Har'El | Saturday, Feb 23 2013, 14 Adar 5773 n...@math.technion.ac.il |----------------------------------------- Phone +972-523-790466, ICQ 13349191 |Lottery: A tax on people who are bad at http://nadav.harel.org.il |math. _______________________________________________ Linux-il mailing list Linux-il@cs.huji.ac.il http://mailman.cs.huji.ac.il/mailman/listinfo/linux-il
