Amazon Web Services (AWS) are a collection of remote computing services (also called web services) offered over the Internet by Amazon.com. Of particular interest to rdiff-backup users is the Elastic Computing Cloud (EC2) and the Elastic Block Store (EBS).
EC2 is a commercial web service that allows customers to rent virtual computers on which to run their own computer applications, like an rdiff-backup server. Users create virtual machine images which can be launched when needed for an hourly fee. Each time a virtual machine is launched, it is created fresh from a static image. EBS provides persistent storage for EC2 machines. Volumes can be created and destroyed as required and are charged per gigabyte per month. Using AWS, you can run a remote rdiff-backup server with flexible persistent storage for off-site backups. I have created an Amazon Machine Image (AMI) that runs rdiff-backup and provides a web interface for restoring files. The image is publically available for anyone to use. There is also a script that automates the starting up and terminating of the virtual server on demand from a local machine. Details on how to set it up are available at http://wiki.rdiff-backup.org/wiki/index.php/Amazon_AWS Note that this hasn't been throughly tested yet but it does appear to be robust. Please let me know if you have any issues or suggestions for improvement. I haven't linked the above wiki page to the main rdiff-backup wiki tree yet as this is only a limited release. I am currently covering the storage and access charges for the AMI and I would like to see how much they are before releasing to the general public. Cheers, Dean _______________________________________________ rdiff-backup-users mailing list at [email protected] http://lists.nongnu.org/mailman/listinfo/rdiff-backup-users Wiki URL: http://rdiff-backup.solutionsfirst.com.au/index.php/RdiffBackupWiki
