Tool to Backup Files to Amazon S3

StrongBad

TNTDrive seems to let you mount as a local drive which would allow you to script your backup process yourself with PowerShell.

StrongBad

Also worth checking out... http://www.cloudberrylab.com/amazon-cloud-storage-online-hard-drive.aspx

Francesco Provino

@sreekumarpg
Mount S3 as a filesystem with https://github.com/archiecobbs/s3backer , and use your standard backup tools.

sreekumarpg

@StrongBad Sorry for not mentioning the OS, its Windows 2012 R2 .

I have tested cloudberry and its doesn't have automatic delete after backup

sreekumarpg

Thanks all for the valid response. Checking the mentioned software,

iroal

Are this tools valid for Amazon Glacier too?

marcinozga

When you delete local files after backing them up, on the next run backup tools will simply delete what you have backed up so far, unless you set up backup retention.
I use Arq backup: https://www.arqbackup.com/ - it doesn't delete files after backing up, but I wouldn't want my backup utility to do that anyway. Arq has a feature to mark folders are archived once backed up, and then local sources can be deleted, but not by the backup software.
What you're looking for is archiving software, not a backup one.

scottalanmiller

Keep in mind, if you delete the original file S3 is not a backup system, it is an archival storage system without a backup.

StrongBad

@iroal said in Tool to Backup Files to Amazon S3:

Are this tools valid for Amazon Glacier too?

Sometimes, but not necessarily. The API is shared but not all tools are set up for it.

wrx7m

I use TNT Drive and Beyond Compare with Windows Task Scheduler to run comparisons and copies of my Veeam backup repository and Amazon S3. Works really well.

sreekumarpg

Thanks all for the support.

Cloudberry seems to be good and suggested to the management.

StrongBad

@sreekumarpg said in Tool to Backup Files to Amazon S3:

Thanks all for the support.

Cloudberry seems to be good and suggested to the management.

Great. Definitely let us know how it ends up working out.

Mike Davis

@iroal

@iroal said in Tool to Backup Files to Amazon S3:

Are this tools valid for Amazon Glacier too?

I'm using CloudBerry to back up to Glacier.

scottalanmiller

@Mike-Davis said in Tool to Backup Files to Amazon S3:

@iroal

@iroal said in Tool to Backup Files to Amazon S3:

Are this tools valid for Amazon Glacier too?

I'm using CloudBerry to back up to Glacier.

That answers that then

BRRABill

Looks like an interesting product.

sreekumarpg

Hello All,

Any one using any software to SYNC local folder to AWS S3 Bucket.

We need only one-way Sync, as the local folder files will be cleanup every week, but all the files need to be in S3 Bucket. This Sync can be schedule as 5 mins or less

Thanks in advance

scottalanmiller

@sreekumarpg said in Tool to Backup Files to Amazon S3:

Hello All,

Any one using any software to SYNC local folder to AWS S3 Bucket.

We need only one-way Sync, as the local folder files will be cleanup every week, but all the files need to be in S3 Bucket. This Sync can be schedule as 5 mins or less

Thanks in advance

Any tool that lets you mount S3 locally, the rsync to do the sync should work fine.

sreekumarpg

@scottalanmiller Thanks Scott

In CloudBerry backup there is an option to do Real-Time backup and this will execute to backup the change in every 60 sec.

This option satisfy my need as it will backup files to aws on real-time and file deleted from local will not get deleted from AWS.

Thanks All for the support.

scottalanmiller

Sounds like a good solution, then.

sreekumarpg

@scottalanmiller Yes Scott, Its a good solution if we want a Continuous Real-time Backup (CDP)

With this feature every change to the files will be captured automatically and you don't need to set up a separate schedule for the backup. The software will automatically look for new and modified files and send the copies to the cloud storage in the background.