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Subscribe to RSS feedI got an e-mail from Amazon that it offers software to synchronize between Amazon S3 and your local laptops, servers,etc Submit… They provide the software from Superflexible 2/56 (read a review by Alex Forbes Submit). A single license costs $60 and on top of that will be your S3 costs.
I was wondering if I could achieve the same … for free 
I host at dreamhost (read why I think it is the best hosting in the world 1/1) which gives me 220+ gig of diskspace of which I actually use less than 2%. So 200gig will be enough space for my most important files and since I am hosting on this account anyhow (you are reading it) it will cost me $0 extra!
So now I need some open source synchronization tool, something smart like Superflexible. Via Google I find http://www.opensync.org/ 1/2,625, rsync 1/745 and…wammo.. an entry in the Dreamhost wiki about syncing my laptop to dreamhost via rsync 2/70.
This is important: “But remember to chmod your backup directory to 700 on dreamhost so that other people on dreamhost can’t access your backed up files from your home computer! (Encryption would also be a good idea.)”
It looks simple and it is, just run or schedule
rsync -e ssh -av username@server.dreamhost.com:remote_directory local_directory
and thats it, here we go, onto a safe remote backup for free.
For comparison, a backup of 220 gig:
Amazon costs:
So this will be $33+$50 = $85 a month!! With Dreamhost Submit I get complete all of this 1/1 for $7.95 a month! (actually much less read here 1/1) and incl. webhosting, unlimited sql databases, unlimited subdomains, jabber server, ruby, php, cvs, full shell access, etc..etc..etc… I wonder why anyone uses Amazon S3 and not dreamhost, the #19 hosting company Submit?
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