S3 now offers Reduced Redundancy - support in Virtualmin backups?

Submitted by joachimb on Fri, 06/25/2010 - 14:46

Hello guys,

I currently use the VM backup function to S3. But now Amazon has launched the 'Reduced Redundancy', which is cheaper storage, and IMHO is enough for storing backups. Will it be possible in a future release to choose which storage type a user wants for the backup to Amazon S3?

Kind regards,

Joachim

Status: 
Closed (fixed)

Comments

Submitted by JamieCameron on Fri, 06/25/2010 - 16:13

That would be nice .. but their docs don't actually explain how to do this!

I guess if you have some other tool that can create RRS buckets, you could instead create one in advance and then have Virtualmin just backup to it.

Submitted by joachimb on Sat, 06/26/2010 - 13:34

Jamie,

I don't know how you have implemented the upload of the files to S3, but all you have to do to upload a RRS-file, is to add a custom header to your put-request: x-amz-storage-class: REDUCED_REDUNDANCY

As an example, below a put-request from my server.

PUT https://**************.s3.amazonaws.com /javahosting.be.tar.gz.info Headers: (x-amz-copy-source: /linux1-daily/javahosting.be.tar.gz.info, x-amz-storage-class: REDUCED_REDUNDANCY, Authorization: AWS ********************:*****************, Date: Sat, 26 Jun 2010 00:21:12 GMT, Content-Type: application/x-www-form-urlencoded; charset=utf-8, )

Submitted by JamieCameron on Sat, 06/26/2010 - 17:49

Thanks for the info - I will add an option to Virtualmin in the next release for a backup to S3 to use their reduced redundancy storage.

Submitted by Issues on Sat, 07/10/2010 - 19:20

Automatically closed -- issue fixed for 2 weeks with no activity.