[rdiff-backup-users] rdiff-backup to Amazon EC2 + EBS

[Matt]

Hi,

I mailed a while back describing my efforts to use Amazon's EC2 service 
+ S3 as a target for rdiff-backup.  It didn't work out.  The problem 
seemed to be that the FUSE filesystem for accessing S3 was in a 
relatively early stage of development and wasn't quite robust enough.

This is just a quick note to say that, with their new EBS (Elastic Block 
Storage) that attaches to your VM instance and shows up as a raw block 
device, we're running rdiff-backup to EC2 with absolutely no problems. 
We can snapshot the EBS volume and create a new, larger volume from it 
and then grow the (ext3) filesystem to fill it every time we need more 
space.

On an unrelated note, we recently took advantage of an offer from our 
ISP, to use their "Managed Backup" service (based on some commercial 
backup software), free of charge.  This lasted for about a week, during 
which their backup processes repeatedly swamped the IO queue on our 
machine and brought it grinding to a halt, resulting in angry customers. 
 Shamefaced, we've returned home to rdiff-backup which has been serving 
us reliably for years.  If it ain't broke.. :)

Regards,

Matt