I started playing with s3fs (http://code.google.com/p/s3fs/wiki/FuseOverAmazon ) this week, seems to work reasonably well. They claim is supports rsync, but I haven't tried it. It uses Fuse to mount your bucket as a file system.
/usr/bin/s3fs <bucketname> -o accessKeyId=<pubkey> -o secretAccessKey=<privatekey> /mnt/point It did take me a while to figure out you have to use a different tool to create new buckets (I used s3fox plugin for firefox) Jonathan On Dec 17, 2008, at 12:10 PM, Mark R. Lindsey wrote: > > > On Dec 17, 2008, at 2:51 PM, N. J. Thomas wrote: > >> Probably my only issue with them is that they charge $1.20 per >> gigabyte >> of storage, which in todays post-S3 world is expensive considering >> that Amazon's sells the same amount for 15 cents. >> >> As soon as someone makes a proper S3 rsync client, I'll probably >> switch >> over for cost reasons. > > So you're paying $1.05/month for them to run servers that expose > standard protocols -- ssh/scp, http/webdav, ftp, and rsync. Seems like > a reasonable deal for a small number of GBs. > > I haven't done anything with S3 yet because they're not exposing > "normal" protocols that I know and love. If I use a particular S3 > client, I don't have a lot of confidence (yet) that it'll be readable > by any other S3 client. Am I being overly cautious? > > Here's what I'm hoping for across my Linux and Mac systems: > mount -t s3fs ... /home/lindsey/stuff > > > > > _______________________________________________ > Discuss mailing list > [email protected] > http://lopsa.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/discuss > This list provided by the League of Professional System Administrators > http://lopsa.org/ _______________________________________________ Discuss mailing list [email protected] http://lopsa.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/discuss This list provided by the League of Professional System Administrators http://lopsa.org/
