Using AWS S3 Service as an External Disk for my Laptop

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Date: Mon, 5 Oct 2009 19:41:48 -0700 (PDT)
To: CSix-Cloud@yahoogroups.com
From: Chaganti Radhakrishna <chaganti.radhakrishna@...>
Subject: Using AWS S3 service as an external disk for my laptop

Folks,

Want to experiment with a simple cloud use case - that of backing up my personal laptop hard-drive on AWS S3 instance. Has anyone done this before? What do you see as the pros and cons of doing this? Like to hear your thoughts on this use case.

RK Chaganti

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Date: Mon, 5 Oct 2009 22:44:05 -0700
From: "Waiming Mok" <wmm@...>
To: "'Chaganti Radhakrishna'" <chaganti.radhakrishna@..., CSix-Cloud@yahoogroups.com>
Subject: RE: [CSix-Cloud] Using AWS S3 service as an external disk for my laptop

Might be cheaper with Carbonite (www.carbonite.com )

if you just want to backup your (1) computer.

We can consider carbonite to be in the cloud.



Amazon S3: 15 cents / GB/mo @ 100 GB = $15 / month

(not including upload bandwidth costs)

Vs

Carbonite: $3.61 / month for unlimited backup storage per computer.



Waiming

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Date: Wed, 7 Oct 2009 16:48:05 -0700
From: "Rich Zbriger" <rich.zbriger@...
Reply-To: <rich.zbriger@...
Subject: RE: [CSix-Cloud] Using AWS S3 service as an external disk for my laptop

I have been using Carbonite for about 6 months with my desktop computer at
home and it works very well. It runs in the background and backs up new
files and updates to existing files. Backups are not performed immediately,
but seem to be sufficiently often. The initial system backup can take quite
a long time about 12-15 GB per DAY. They recommend not trying to back up a
complete system just user data, but you can specify whatever you want backed
up.



Rich