Amazon Web Services - Cloud provider

2016-aws-live
AWS-Partner-infor
on linux can use $s3cmd to backup to S3 storage in AWS.
- $ s3cmd --configure
  - get keys from http://aws.amazon.com/ User Name,Access Key Id,Secret Access Key
  - s3cmd mb s3://backupVigor
    - Bucket 's3://backupVigor/' created
- Use tar with incremental option to backup files, pipe through xz to compress, pgp to encrypt if needed and then pipe straight to s3cmd, into backup file.
  - 20160322 - This works great, and no need for a local copy of the file while creating the backup.
Then set AWS policy on s3 bucket to move older files to Glacier, and even delete very old files, e.g. after 700days.

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