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Those are all really good points. I'm interested in hearing more about the NTFS quirks - what kind of issues were cropping up? Now I'm really curious what file
by akersten 6y ago
Those are all really good points. I'm interested in hearing more about the NTFS quirks - what kind of issues were cropping up?
Now I'm really curious what filesystem Snowball wound up standardizing on, and how/if file metadata/ACLs/alternate data streams are maintained.
- dylz 6y agoDo those even matter if the final file destination is S3?
- akersten 6y agoIt's mostly a technical curiosity to me. Although maybe they would if you're using it in a system backup/archive workflow?
- rainbowzootsuit 6y agoI helped a client do a transfer to S3 via snowball once for a music studio client with a smorgusboard of random hard drives. The software client for doing the transfer is some sort of command line JVM tool from my memory. You locally create S3 buckets on the snowball and copy from the local disks into the buckets. Once the snowball is returned, the buckets appear in your online account.
- Twirrim 6y agoThe main issues with NTFS would be the system either wouldn't be able to see the drive, or would fail to be able to read part of it. They were building up quite a repertoire of tricks to get things to read correctly, but it was almost impossible to safely automate.