hybinet wrote:
1) There seem to be at least 3 different programs named S3FS (in addition to JungleDisk which is not free), and each of them uses its own (proprietary) way of storing data in S3. These protocols are not compatible with each other. Accordingly, you can't access the data you stored on S3 unless you go through the same program you used to store it.
as phvt said, use fuse (
http://s3fuse.sourceforge.net/)
i use it for daily backups, works very well.
the backup script mounts the s3 bucket, copies over the compressed backup (to avoid excessive transactions and save space) and when it's done it unmounts the bucket.
the current backup size is about ~ 250MB - 400MB and i had no problems so far.
when using a s3 browser i can see all the data in the bucket, no funny business with custom/proprietary storage or so.
that said, this works fine for daily backups but probably not if you need to serve large amounts of data and don't want to keep them on S3 (after all, it is slower than a local disk or NAS/SAN in the same datacenter and costs money for storage/bandwidth).