Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2009/12/03
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]Oh, I have that too, Mark. AWS is just for backup. I'm paranoid about backups. I probably go a little over-board Daniel On Thu, Dec 3, 2009 at 11:57 PM, Mark Rabiner <mark at rabinergroup.com> wrote: >> It sure does feel nice to get all these welcomes back. I sincerely >> appreciate it. >> >> This is probably old hat to all now. I searched the archives, but >> didn't come up with anything. >> >> I mentioned that I bought a Mac (MacBook Pro 13" screen). I run >> Lightroom on it and got myself to believe I would just use it for >> quick stuff while I was out and away. >> >> Turned out that it became more and more my standard machine and >> backups started to become an issue. In my other work (the one that >> pays) I need a lot of storage space. "Too much" space is not a >> concept. Anyway, I ran into Amazon Simple Storage Services. >> >> To make a long story short, if you store 1 gb (just lost this letter >> because I hit the command-4 to get a $ instead of the alt-4 and had to >> start over ... thinking about squirting some epoxy glue under that >> right-hand command key) 1 gb will cost 15 cents a month, 10 gb (real >> careful now) $ (made it) $1.50 a month. >> >> I use it under GNU Linux at work and Mac OS X at home. >> >> I download s3tools (a small set of Python scripts) ... there's >> probably a graphical interface too, but what I like about the MacBook >> is the command-line. (http://s3tools.org) >> >> Start an account with AWS, get the access key, run the configuration >> for the scrips (which involves telling it what your secret access key >> is) and then: >> >> 1) cd >> 2) s3cmd sync ./Pictures s3://photo-archive.dlridings.se/macbook/ >> >> and go to bed. It takes a while to upload everything the first time. >> >> Then, after I've done some more work and want to save it, I just do >> the same thing: >> >> 1) cd >> 2) s3cmd sync ./Pictures s3://photo-archive.dlridings.se/macbook/ >> >> But the second time it just synchronizes my local files on the MacBook >> with the files that are up there in the blue. If the local ones >> haven't changed, it doesn't upload them again. >> >> s3cmd ls >> >> will list your "buckets" (my bucket above is >> s3://photo-archive.dlridings.se) Everything else is an object. It kind >> of looks like they are files and directories >> (s3://photo-archive.dlridings.se/macbook/Pictures/Lightroom/etc) but >> all of the slashes after the bucket name are just letters in the >> filenames, not really directories. >> >> It's just as easy to get things back. You can access them from >> anywhere that you have an internet connection. No more USB drives >> weighing you down when you're on the road. >> >> Pretty nice stuff, and that's only the start. You can do quite a lot >> using their services. >> >> http://aws.amazon.com/s3 >> >> SMUGMUG bases their system on it. The files can be private or public, >> so you can use them in web applications etc. >> >> It _does_ cost a litte (also pennies) to transfer the files, but once >> they are there, they cost max (careful now) $.15 a gigabyte a month. >> >> You can have your buckets reside in the US or the EU. It doesn't make >> any difference from a usage point of view. No matter where your >> "bucket" is, you can access it over the net. You just might save some >> speed across the wire. >> >> If you have a whole turdload of files, you can send them a hard disk >> and they'll off-load it directly onto their internal net. >> >> Nice back-up solution. If anyone can think of serious down-sides, I'd >> appreciate hearing about it. I'm pretty reliant on it. >> >> Daniel >> >> PS: I'm getting pretty tired of Google maps. Evidently CMD-4 (what I >> hit instead of ALT-4) is a shortcut to Google maps. >> >> _______________________________________________ >> Leica Users Group. >> See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information > > > The down side is your body of work is who knows where being looked at and > done what with by who knows who. > A one tsp hard drive which sits next to your laptop if your doing photo > stuff cost $99 dollars and 99 cents. (But I'd spend a few dollars more and > get Firewire 800 with an 8 cylinder engine.) > And that's enough to store one billion pictures at .0000001 cents a mb. > And its in your immediate possession. > You're looking at it. > In the real world. Smell or a ama. 3D. You name it. > > > Mark William Rabiner > > > > > _______________________________________________ > Leica Users Group. > See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information >