[Dovecot] Ok, I've given up

[Peter Risdon]

On 17/06/10 13:33, William Blunn wrote:
> Ed W wrote:
>> How are you backing up to S3? Most of the options I have seen have 
>> some serious issues that limit reliable full backups?  Its been on my 
>> todo list for some time now to fix the C s3fs implementation that you 
>> find here: http://code.google.com/p/s3fs/ - code is shocking and 
>> could easily be fixed up pretty well...
>>
>> http://s3tools.org/ - seems maintained, but not used it?
>>
>> Brackup seems excellent, but has only an initial patch to support 
>> backing up user permissions, so at this stage seems more useful for 
>> data files than a whole system backup?
>>
>> Also you have the option of cheap hosting through the likes of say 
>> Dreamhost or Kimsufi
>>     http://www.kimsufi.co.uk/ks/
>> £15/month for a single machine with a single 250GB (non backed up) 
>> disk.  Twice that price can get you multiple TB disks.  Use this plus 
>> rsync?
>>
>> Not really sure where the sweet spot is here, but unsure what S3 
>> really buys us?
>
> I would imagine it would be some variation on dumping databases, 
> making tarballs, chopping up into <5GB pieces and then uploading them 
> with s3cmd (s3tools.org).
>
> Over and above rented server storage, S3 should provide multi-site 
> redundancy (coverage against a plane making an unscheduled landing 
> into the data centre).

Tarsnap is worth glancing at:

http://www.tarsnap.com/

>
> Bill