Tag: Amazon S3

Online Backup with Amazon S3 and MacFUSE

Amazon S3 bucketI just signed up for an Amazon.com S3 after reading a great review of JunleDisk on a Mac blog. My first thought was this would be a good candidate for development for the MacFUSE project ran by Google Code. They have already implemented SSH and Spotlight in FUSE and are testing others. I can mount the file system on my FreeNAS or mac mini from my MacBook using the MacFUSE SSHFS. Now imagine if FUSE was ported to Windows? The the issue of setting up Samba or NFS or FTP or whatever would be moot. For Linux/UNIX boxen we would just turn on SSH providing remote login as well as remote file system mounting. For Windows we would use some FUSE file-system for CIFS/SMB and mount away. I think Apple would do well to integrate FUSE into the next release of OS-X (Leopard). Eric Schmidt, CEO of Google, sits on Apple's board so maybe we'll see some serious development here.

UPDATED: To fix broken image and link.

Data protection for online apps

Chris Gilmer of Web Worker Daily poses an interesting question: "...what happens when disaster strikes?". I am not sure of the answer. Even at the office when then servers or the network goes down work comes to standstill. Most of the data I manipulate, either via a web or rich client application, is located remotely. I have started thinking about the questions and logistics of working offline and though not perfect I do have a solution at least for data that can move ( e.g. text documents, spreadsheets, presentations etc). At home I have been using a home built network attached storage system (FreeNAS) to synchronize my local data to remote storage. The downside is increased storage requirements and increased network bandwidth but so far it has worked well for me.

Update:  I have decided on using the Amazon S3 service for data backup.

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