Stewart Robertson wrote: > 1. Will my data be secure while it is flying over the Internet > towards my S3 storage. I don't have anything top secret but there's > no need to tempt fate.
You can send it over SSL. More common is to encrypt it locally (with GPG for example) and upload the GPG'd files (perhaps over SSL). I know s3sync had a means to gpg-and-transmit, not checked with s3cmd. > 2. Do you know if it will only transfer the changed files/parts of > files because I was reading about that as a limitation of S3 with > some of these systems that pushes up the prices because if part of a > 4MB file has changed the whole file is transferred again instead of > just the changed part. I don't know for certain, but the ability to consider only particular parts of a file (or 'object') is counter to the way S3 is supposed to work. It's worth remembering that it's not a funny interface to a block device; it's a funny interface to a database. In any case, there's no charge for uploads - only downloads and storage, so if anything a true rsync would cost more. -- Avi. _______________________________________________ Peterboro mailing list Peterboro@mailman.lug.org.uk https://mailman.lug.org.uk/mailman/listinfo/peterboro
