Amazon S3 (Simple Storage Service) is a web service which provides storage and various interfaces for accessing data stored there.
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Replacing Dropbox with: Amazon S3 + SSL + GPG/TrueCrypt + Mounting on OSX ??
So, right now we're using Dropbox to share various data files around between approximately 10 Mac OS X systems.
However, we already have an S3 account and everyone on the lowest Dropbox plan of ...
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Amazon Glacier clients [closed]
Do you know about any affordable client software to upload/retrieve archives from Amazon Glacier? A big plus would be the ability to migrate data from Amazon S3 to Amazon Glacier directly from the ...
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Uploading files to S3 account from linux command prompt
I've got several large files sitting in my linux hosted account that I need to upload to my S3 account. I dont want to download them first and then upload it into S3.
Is there any way I can "upload" ...
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A decent S3 bucket manager for Ubuntu
I'm looking for a decent S3 bucket manager for Ubuntu (Gnome). I prefer it to integrate with Nautilus so it will look like just any other drive (a la WebDAV) but so far I haven't been able to find ...
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Time machine backup on S3
Is there any possibility to use Amazon S3 for Mac OS X time machine backups?
Or in other words: Use S3 rather an external hard disk for time machine backups?
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Alternative to Amazon's S3 service? [closed]
Just wondering if there is good alternative to Amazon's S3 service? I like S3 but the bandwidth cost is high. I looked at CouldFiles from Rackspace but the cost is even higher.
I don't mind ...
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Can I use rsync for backing up at Amazon S3
I have bought some space from evbackup which provides me FTP, rsync and SSH.
But I have also read that Amazon S3 can also be used to backups.
So I am really confused that do Amazon give FTP access ...
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What free method would you recommend for mounting an Amazon S3 bucket on OS X 10.6?
It seems s3fs is broken on Snow Leopard
( http://mark.aufflick.com/blog/2007/10/28/leopard-amazon-s3-network-storage )
Does anyone know of a free (and preferably open source) way to mount a bucket so ...
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Can I rely on S3 to keep my data secure?
I want to back up sensitive personal data to S3 via an rsync-style interface. I'm currently using s3cmd - a great tool - but it doesn't yet support encrypted syncs. This means that while my data is ...
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How to mount Amazon S3 bucket to a directory on FreeBSD?
I can't find a solution on how to mount an Amazon S3 bucket to an existing directory on FreeBSD.
I suspect, I need to install port fusefs-s3fs.
But how should I configure it? I can't find any info.
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Auto-set permissions when uploading to Amazon S3 with Transmit 4 [closed]
Does anyone know how to auto-set the read permissions for "World" upon upload of a file to Amazon S3 with Transmit? It is currently a two step process in my workflow:
upload the file
change ...
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A company wide dropbox like system on top of Amazon S3
Is there a system that will provide dropbox like features on top of Amazon s3?
It would be used company wide, mostly for documents, recordings, etc...
Some users work on Microsoft Windows, others on ...
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Cloud based backup solutions based on open standards?
I am looking for a solution to backup and consolidate important media from a couple Windows laptops and Mac laptop.
I would like a solutions that based on open standards, so my data isn't trapped by ...
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Automatically Transcode Video and Upload to Cloud
I'm looking for a solution to take video files from my HD Camera and automate transcoding to a smaller format and then uploading to the cloud (AWS or otherwise).
The ideal workflow would be, I have a ...
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Amazon S3 - To Backup or Not to Backup
So heres a question: Should I back up my data if I store using S3 (not RRS) or does S3 already handle a good enough multiple site data replication redundancy?
If backing up is desired, I'd like to ...
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Encryption strategy for Amazon S3?
I'm running Windows and strongly considering using Amazon S3 to back up some of my more important data, but i'm having trouble coming up with a good encryption strategy. I'm a fan of Truecypt and use ...
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Amazon S3/Cloudfront backup software for windows
Is there any (free?) backup solutions for Amazon Cloudfront / S3 out there that features scheduling in windows?
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Are whole VM images backed up on Amazon EC2/S3?
I've been trying to get my head around Amazon Web Services as a VPS provider. My understanding is a EC2 instance running Windows is basically a Windows VM, very similar to renting a VPS from a more ...
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Use personal Amazon S3 account to backup Gmail using Ubuntu
As question, I have found online that backupify offer shifting from their S3 to user's personal S3, I have a backupify account but I can't find this options, besides, I don't prefer having my email ...
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Is having Linux VPS same as Amazon EC2 or S3 [closed]
I am new to Amazon services so have no idea, whenever i ask some questions on forums , few recommend Amazon instead of VPS.
So i want to know is having Amazon EC2 or S3 is exact replacement of VPS. i ...
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Setting up scripts in Amazon EC2 Cloud
I am currently running a few perl and python scripts on a windows pc and would like to port over to the Amazon EC2 servers running 64-bit LINUX. The scripts are basic web scrapers that go to a ...
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Zip Multiple Text Files from Multiple Directories into One ZIP File in One Command in Bash
I have an account on AWS and I use S3 for storing data. I have commands that will enable me to zip data files like so:
data.zip s3_dir/level-1/level-2/*/*/data.txt
But there are, say, 50 or more ...
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What desktop app can sync Amazon S3 with an FTP folder?
What I'm trying to do is migrate large files off my web site to S3.
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Need PC Software that does real-time syncing for files from a local desktop folder to an amazon S3 account?
I need pc software with a GUI that will allow me to sync a folder on my computer with a folder on my amazon s3 account. The syncing needs to be in real time. It should listen for changes and then sync ...
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Amazon S3 GUI Client For Mac OS X [closed]
I'm looking for a good GUI client for Amazon S3. On Windows I used Cloudberry Explorer and I would like to know if there's anything like that for Mac OS X.
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Backup software for Ubuntu - which one?
I have spent some time testing out different backup solutions for my small home office during the last weeks, but still haven't found anything that have been working out too well yet. We can ...
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Transfer file to Amazon S3 from web server
How do I transfer a tarball from my web server (e.g. http://example.com/backup.tar.gz) to an Amazon S3 bucket? Do I have to download it locally and upload it?
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Is there the equivalent of cloud computing for modems?
I asked this question on SF, and someone recommended that I ask it on SO, and on SO, it was voted to be closed, and someone suggest that I post it here - (and so, the merry go round continues) - so ...
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Amazon S3 bucket - download only certain files
I have an Amazon S3 bucket with 10,000 images sitting in it with a standard naming convention:
001_small.jpg
001_large.jpg
002_small.jpg
002_large.jpg
Since there is such a large amount of files I ...
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Why can't I connect to my Amazon S3 storage with two of my three clients?
I use Transmit, Cyberduck, and Espresso, all of which support connecting to Amazon S3. But for some reason, I can only connect to my S3 storage successfully in Transmit; Cyberduck and Espresso both ...
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Automating backup of Amazon S3 data - Alternatives to Bucket Commander?
I need to back up an entire Amazon S3 110 GB bucket on an automatic basis, to a location only accessible to me. We do not store data physically, all our data is in the cloud, so what I am looking for ...
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Subversion repository on Amazon S3
Is it possible to put a subversion repository on Amazon S3.
I found SvnToS3 on google code but that project seems dead.
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Can I prevent Jungle Disk's “Compressing Backup Database” process from spiking my CPU?
Every time my scheduled backup runs, it spikes my CPU usage up to 100%, literally freezing everything else I'm doing.
It is only during the 'Compressing Backup Database' part of the backup process ...
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Getting a Quicktime Movie to Stream Instead of Download
In the past, I've placed Quicktime movies on Amazon S3, and when a user loads the file's in Firefox (on OS X), the movie starts playing immediately, doing that pseudo streaming quicktime thing where ...
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Why is my iPad connecting to S3 and using lots of bandwidth? [closed]
I noticed my connection has been extremely slow lately at some random times. I figured someone in my house was torrenting, so I booted up tcpdump on the router. What I found out is that it appears ...
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How can I download a copy of an S3 public data set?
i was naively assuming I could do something like
s3cmd sync s3://snap-d203feb5 /var/tmp/copy
but I seem to have the wrong idea of how to go about this. I cannot even get a simple thing to work;
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Using S3 instead of FTP- any reason NOT to?
Whenever a client wants an FTP storage solution, my instinct it to direct them to S3 instead, as a secure and cost-effective alternative. Is there any good reason NOT to use S3 instead of FTP/SFTP in ...
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How to upload big files to S3 on a flaky connection?
I have a bunch of files (between 500MB and 7GB) that I need uploaded to an S3 bucket. My connection is very flaky.
I tried uploading a 500MB file via s3cmd but it timed out after it was 91% done ...
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Is it possible to transfer files from Amazon S3 directly to another web server? [closed]
I need to transfer some files from several Amazon S3 buckets to a different web server.
The amount of data is several gigs, so downloading and re-uploading is not favorable.
I have done some ...
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can i create a symlink from an ec2 disk to S3 bucket?
Is it possible to create a symlink from a file on the local disk of a windows machine in ec2 so that it is actually stored in an S3 bucket?
MSMQ wants to write our queue to a local disk and this ...
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S3 based dropbox like program for mac os and windows
I use dropbox to sync file between several computers. It does the job quite well but it have several disadvantages:
Storing files on S3 is much cheaper (I need about 10Gb for all my shared files) ...
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Real-Time Automated Amazon S3 Backup for Windows
I'm looking for a service I can configure in Windows 7 that will run in the background to monitor selected file system(s) for changes, and immediately push those changes in a lazy fashion to my Amazon ...
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Using a script that uses Duplicity + S3 excluding large files
I'm trying to write an backup script that will exclude files over a certain size.
If i run the script duplicity gives an error. However if I copy and paste the same command generated by the script ...
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All documents from S3 backup corrupted
Before I left for my trip I made a backup of all my important data to an Amazon S3 bucket. I also have a Citrix remote desktop to my disposal. Today I installed the citrix client and logged in to my ...
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Limited access to Amazon S3 buckets
Is it possible to somehow limit the access to an Amazon S3 account. I don't really like the idea of distributing my secret access key to all of my applications, that want to access just a single ...
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Initiate restore of directory hierarchy in Glacier to S3?
Using software that runs under Linux, is there a way to initiate a restore from Glacier to S3 of an entire directory hierarchy? The files are transferred to Glacier using a S3 bucket lifecycle rule.
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Would it be okay to use the Amazon S3 for personal use? [closed]
I understand that AWS is meant for corporate use, but I just thought about using the S3 for personal backups, and by using their calculator it seems like it would be quite cheap in comparison to other ...
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Is there a way to automate XML playlist creation for files in an S3 bucket?
I'm working on an XML-based, non-Flash music player for a client. They want to be able to upload files to a bucket and stream MP3s back to their website.
I'm wondering if there's a way to ...
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Can Git GPG program be used for s3cmd?
My ultimate goal is to be able to put files onto my Amazon EC2 server. After a month of failed attempts at getting SSH access to the server, I have decided to try s3cmd and eventually migrate files ...
