That sounds exactly like the solution I was imagining - I just need to work out if it's easy enough to do and more importantly if it's feasible as a solution.
I'll post back with any stumbling blocks or successes. Many thanks and best seasonal wishes everyone. Stewart On Dec 21, 2011 10:33 AM, "Tony Cowderoy" <t...@cowderoy.co.uk> wrote: > On 20/12/2011 20:46, Stewart Robertson wrote: > > Spin up an EC2 image on Amazon servers, use Rsync to back up my data to > > S3 as a form of offsite storage. > > One option might be to rsync to an EBS disk image attached to the EC2 VM > and then snapshot it to S3. Multiple snapshots only save the modified > blocks, so you could keep some history fairly efficiently. If you're > feeling really paranoid, you could run rsync over ssh to an encrypted > filesystem. As the snapshot is done at the device level, the snapshot > data on S3 would be encrypted. > > Tony Cowderoy > > _______________________________________________ > Peterboro mailing list > Peterboro@mailman.lug.org.uk > https://mailman.lug.org.uk/mailman/listinfo/peterboro >
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