I'll be very interested to hear how you get on. I'm thinking of doing something similar myself.
The other nice thing with this set up is that you only need to run (and pay for) the VM while you are making the backup. It is also possible to script the whole thing from a linux box. The crude but easy way to do it is with the command-line EC2 client (which requires Java). The slick way would be through one of Amazon's web service APIs. Tony On 26/12/2011 12:42, Stewart Robertson wrote: > 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 > <mailto: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 <mailto:Peterboro@mailman.lug.org.uk> > https://mailman.lug.org.uk/mailman/listinfo/peterboro > > > > _______________________________________________ > Peterboro mailing list > Peterboro@mailman.lug.org.uk > https://mailman.lug.org.uk/mailman/listinfo/peterboro _______________________________________________ Peterboro mailing list Peterboro@mailman.lug.org.uk https://mailman.lug.org.uk/mailman/listinfo/peterboro
