Comments on: Amazon S3, S3Sync, Backups, and You!

By: james

james — Fri, 06 Jul 2007 14:44:26 +0000

I’d be very interested in seeing what you come up with, especially that bucket dump. Seeing as the tools are ruby scripts I really ought to punt it over to one of our developers to peek at to see if they can find out what gives with it and what the differences are between the Javascript and it.

By: Nathan

Nathan — Fri, 06 Jul 2007 00:38:02 +0000

Hmm… As a FireFox extension, it’s likely all JavaScript. I’ll have to look into this.

Since I used this entry as a basis for the setup I’m working on, I’ll be sure to share with you the set of scripts I’m coming up with. I’m sure someone will find it useful. Particularly if I can get the bucket dumping process together.

By: james

james — Tue, 03 Jul 2007 20:29:30 +0000

Thanks!

Well, I think it is because how S3 treats buckets as labels rather than containers. When I set this up I was in the whole RSync mindset of folders and whatnot and after ruminating on it and playing with the tools a little more came to the conclusion that, at least from the standpoint of the s3sync tools, you cannot manipulate files beyond put and get and tagging and untagging as a bucket name.

Now how S3Fox handles file deletion and why it is able to deep-six a bucket and all associated files…No idea!

By: Nathan

Nathan — Tue, 03 Jul 2007 17:55:13 +0000

So, what you’re saying is, even when you’re issuing the deletebucket command, it’s not actually deleting the bucket? Sounds like deletebucket isn’t actually working properly.

This is a fantastic little howto, though. I’m in the process of tuning/repackaging a webserver under EC2, so this will help me greatly