use a cron job to query all the objects in the bucket and save them in a new bucket. I don't think you need ec2 for that. I don't know if the files would actually be copied to your server and then saved back on a new bucket, hopefully not.
-Matt On 7/30/07, Micah Wedemeyer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > I'm looking into S3, and I'd like to know if anyone has experience > backing up a bucket. > > I'm not worried about data loss due to fault on Amazon's side. Instead, > I'm worried about accidentally deleting a file or something goofy like > that on my end. From what I understand, if that happens, you're SOL. > > It would be nice if I could periodically take a snapshot of a bucket and > copy it to another bucket. The simplest case would be to just make a > bucket with a new name and copy all the items. > > Of course, I'd like to avoid paying for the data transfer costs. > > 2 questions on this: > > 1. Is there a simple command to do this? I haven't seen anything in the > aws-s3 docs. > > 2. Assuming the answer to 1 is no, has anyone done this? I'm thinking > it could be done using EC2, since the transfer to and from EC2 is free. > However, I have no experience with EC2, nor do I really want to learn > it. Does somebody have a rake task that will do this magically? > > Any help would be greatly appreciated, > Micah > _______________________________________________ > Sdruby mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.sdruby.com/mailman/listinfo/sdruby >
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