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Ok, so I currently use cron + s3sync + s3 buckets to backup servers/sites. How would this differ (other than the price)?
by callmeed 18y ago
Ok, so I currently use cron + s3sync + s3 buckets to backup servers/sites.
How would this differ (other than the price)?
- cperciva 18y ago1. Security. 2. Snapshotted backups. With tarsnap you can take a backup every day, but only pay for each unique block of data once -- which is useful if you don't want your nightly cron job to "synchronize" the fact that you just accidentally deleted some files to S3. 3. I don't know all the details of how s3sync works, but how efficient is it at handling files which have had small changes made to them? (Or, in the case of log files, data appended to them?) Tarsnap doesn't have to re-send the entire file. 4. Does s3sync compress data before storing it? Tarsnap does (and you pay for the bandwidth and storage used, post-compression). 5. When looking at the price, keep in mind that S3 has a per-request fee which can get pretty expensive if your average file size is small.