June 19, 200818 yr Has anyone set up their unRAID server to automatically backup their data to Amazon's S3 service? I was thinking this would be a great way to safely store my data as an offsite option.
June 19, 200818 yr I did not know anything about Amazon S3 service. I did a few quick searches using Google and found this reference to a fuse file-system driver that would let you have access to your S3 files as a mountable fuse file-system under Linux. In other words, you can create a drive you can rsync to under unRAID and get easy off-site-storage of critical files/folders. Since we already have fuse under unRAID, all we would need is an executable for the s3fs user-file-system driver. Tom might want to take a look at including this in at the end of the laundry list. It would allow almost transparent off-site storage for critical files. It would be VERY expensive to put Terabytes of storage on S3, but if you just want to rsync your financial, email, and document folders it probably would be very affordable. (yes, the blog on their wiki says you can rsync to it) http://code.google.com/p/s3fs/ Joe L.
June 19, 200818 yr Might be better to build another server housed at a relatives house. Seems there's bigger fish to fry in the base unRAID environment now.. UPS, NFS, Front End Hooks for user packages, S3 power/standby/suspend support. It's cool and all, maybe the S3 support should be posted/moved to feature requests.
June 19, 200818 yr Might be better to build another server housed at a relatives house. Seems there's bigger fish to fry in the base unRAID environment now.. UPS, NFS, Front End Hooks for user packages, S3 power/standby/suspend support. It's cool and all, maybe the S3 support should be posted/moved to feature requests. I 1000% agree... if added, it should be at the END of the laundry list. Especially since it is a user mode program and anybody can compile it. It does not need Tom at all. Most that are able to set up rsync can probably handle setting up the s3fs file system. UPS support, NFS support, hooks for user-packages, S3 support (when it becomes possible on most hardware), e-mail alerts, all are way higher in priority. Joe L.
June 19, 200818 yr Might be better to build another server housed at a relatives house. Very true, if you have many Terabytes, S3 would be very expensive, and very time-consuming to upload too. For a small number of files, it does not look too expensive. There is even a FireFox extension to allow you to get to your files. I might suggest a simple portable USB based hard disk for a small number of critical files and a second unRAID server at a relatives for anything bigger. A lot of the USB disk drives are small enough to put in a safe-deposit box at the bank, or at your office, or at a relative's for cheap off-site storage.
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