I'm thinking of signing up for Amazon S3 for remote backups. Does anyone here use it at all? What is the service like?
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Amazon S3 - Anyone use it?
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I have a friend who uses it for his iphone app.
http://www.sunmapapp.com/
loads from the closest server in your state/country...pretty nifty.
http://www.sunmapapp.com/
loads from the closest server in your state/country...pretty nifty.
I use jungledisk for backing up my photos ... it uses S3 for the backend. SE is cheap (about $1/month for the amount I've uploaded so far) and reliable.
Are you thinking of using a third party application for backups or rolling your own? S3 seems to have a pretty well developed API. I thought about writing my own application for the hell of it, but the amount of time needed to produce something reliable put me off that idea quickly)
Are you thinking of using a third party application for backups or rolling your own? S3 seems to have a pretty well developed API. I thought about writing my own application for the hell of it, but the amount of time needed to produce something reliable put me off that idea quickly)
Initially I was just going to use Cyberduck and manually backup my data but in the long term I was planning on integrating it into my website.
I've used S3 on a few projects, it worked really well as a cheaper method of serving up images. For backup purposes, it might not be ideal, as anything you upload is going to publicly visible.
If you're in search of a secure backup solution, why not just get a Time Capsule or Drobo?
If you're in search of a secure backup solution, why not just get a Time Capsule or Drobo?
Not secure enough. If I get robbed or have a fire then the backup gets lost. I guess I'll have to look into more specialist backup solutions.