RE: [Duplicity-talk] Duplicity S3 from Windows

[Stephen Zemlicka]

Is that s3 backend included with duplicity or where should I download it
from?

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Stephen Zemlicka
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Of Kenneth Loafman
Sent: Tuesday, October 09, 2007 12:21 PM
To: Discussion of the backup program duplicity
Subject: Re: [Duplicity-talk] Duplicity S3 from Windows

Stephen Zemlicka wrote:
> I am looking at using duplicity from windows to S3.  A few things I want
to
> check.
> 1. All data transmitted encrypted (both sent and received)

Yes, the S3 backend uses boto from http://code.google.com/p/boto.  I
cannot tell if it uses an http connection or https.  Sorry, I did not
write the S3 backend.

The data is encrypted even if the transmission itself is not.

> 2. It is bandwidth efficient (only transferring parts of large files)

Yes, it uses the librsync methods to only transfer the changed parts of
large files.

> 3. It can be used with windows (I assume with cygwin)

Yes, with Cygwin.

> 4. A reference to a "how to" walkthrough would be nice also.  I'm a
> duplicity newbie.  Duplicity looks very cool and I'd like to make the
> transition from rsync to duplicity due to its S3 potential.

The howto has not been written yet, however, the instructions are fairly
simple.  Just fill in the blanks on the following script and you're on
your way.

#!/bin/sh
export S3KEY=[key]
export S3SECRET=[secret]
duplicity --include-filelist="backuplist" /source s3+http://my-bucket

...Ken