Duplicity: Main. Amazon Web Services Store. A List of Amazon S3 Backup Tools. In an effort to replace my home backup server with Amazon’s S3, I’ve been collecting a list of Amazon S3 compatible backup tools to look at. Here’s what I’ve discovered, followed by my requirements. The List I’ve evaluated exactly zero of these so far. That’s next. s3sync.rb is written in Ruby as a sort of rsync clone to replace the perl script s3sync which is now abandonware.
Backup Manager appears to now have S3 support as of version 0.7.3. s3DAV isn’t exactly a backup tool. S3 Backup is an Open Source tool for backing up to S3. Duplicity is a free Unix tool that uses S3 and the librsync library. S3 Solutions is a list of other S3 related tools on the Amazon Developer Connection. Brackup is a backup tool written by Brad Fitzpatrick (of LiveJournal, SixApart, memcached, perlbal, etc…). Jungle Disk provides clients for Mac, Windows, and Linux. For those keeping track, non-S3 options suggested in the comment on my previous post are Carbonite, rsync.net, and a DreamHost account.
S3 Backup – Fail-safe, Encrypted Online Backup • Maluke Co. Blog.awswebshop.com : Amazon Web Shop Blog » [Announce:] Sync2S3. Replacing my home backup server with Amazon's S3 (by Jeremy. Not too long ago, Amazon released their Simple Storage Service (or "S3" for short). It provides a hosted storage platform which developers can build all sorts of applications on top of. Smugmug, a popular photo sharing web site, is using it to store and host pictures. I've been considering using S3 as the backend to an on-line backup, since I'd been beating that for a while (see: Swimming Pools and Hard Disks and Cheap On-Line Storage Coming Soon). In a few days I'll write about how to do this--I'm only partially through the process right now.
But right now I want to lay out the motivation for doing this. The Cost of A Home Server Amazon's pricing model is pretty compelling. My home server is a 2.4GHz Pentium 4 that contains 3 250GB SATA disks in a RAID configuration, plus an 80GB boot and OS disk. My home server costs me a minimum of $13 every four weeks just to leave powered on and idling, or $170 per year. The Cost on S3 Assuming that growth rate has me up to 190GB five years from now.