[clug] DIY cloud services?

[George at Clug]

http://aws.amazon.com/s3/
Amazon Simple Storage Service (Amazon S3), provides developers and IT
teams with secure, durable, highly-scalable object storage. Amazon S3
is easy to use, with a simple web services interface to store and
retrieve any amount of data from anywhere on the web. With Amazon S3,
you pay only for the storage you actually use. There is no minimum fee
and no setup cost.

http://www.nongnu.org/duplicity/index.html


DUPLICITY



Encrypted bandwidth-efficient backup using the rsync algorithm



WHAT IS IT?



Duplicity backs directories by producing encrypted tar-format volumes
and uploading them to a remote or local file server. Because duplicity
uses librsync [1], the incremental archives are space efficient and
only record the parts of files that have changed since the last
backup. Because duplicity uses GnuPG [2] to encrypt and/or sign these
archives, they will be safe from spying and/or modification by the
server.



The duplicity package also includes the rdiffdir utility. Rdiffdir is
an extension of librsync's rdiff to directories---it can be used to
produce signatures and deltas of directories as well as regular files.
These signatures and deltas are in GNU tar format.



http://kappataumu.com/articles/cloud-backups-duplicity-s3.html

http://ddevnet.net/posts/backup-amazon-s3-2014.html

http://thomassileo.com/blog/2012/07/19/ubuntu-slash-debian-encrypted-incremental-backups-with-duplicity-on-amazon-s3/



At Monday, 16-02-2015 on 10:04 jhock at iinet.net.au wrote:


I'm unfamiliar with S3.could you "please explain " ;--) or point me to
an explanatory URL?

Ta. 

John. 

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---- Miller-Kelly, Cody wrote ----

> A good example is backup using Duplicity against S3 etc.
> 
> All the data is encrypted.
> On 15/02/2015 5:41 pm, "Michael Still"  wrote:
> 
> > On Sun, Feb 15, 2015 at 10:01 AM, jhock at iinet.net.au 
> > wrote:
> >
> > > The current post on "The end of the personal computer is nigh "
> > indicates, in my opinion, the only good thing about storing data
on a cloud
> > is that it is a backup in case of disaster. For example, if a fire
destroys
> > everything then one can restore the information from the cloud.
> > >
> > > I have thought that having an encrypted hard disk as a cloud,
stored at
> > a good friends home, (and visa versa) would be a great way of
backing up
> > our data without the multinationals having my data. But how does
one
> > achieve this? I'll have to ask a few of my friends who are still
in the IT
> > business.
> >
> > If you encrypt the data before you upload it, then I don't think
it
> > really matters where you store it -- be that a friends house or
some
> > hosting company's cloud storage thing. Or am I missing something?
> >
> > Michael
> >
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Links:
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[1] http://sourceforge.net/projects/librsync
[2] http://www.gnupg.org/