Amazon S3 Web Storage
Amazon S3
online storage is an inexpensive place for any amount of data. After
registration via the above link you can start storing data right
away. There is no monthly fee and there are only low fees for storage used and
Gigabytes transferred.
S3 can be specified as the left or right side of the synchronization. When using S3
for backup, it is recommended to use the right side for S3.
Please make sure you have the latest version
of our software. For Amazon S3 we recommend at least build 553.
Click on the Internet... (world icon) button to configure the Amazon S3
access. In the dialog box that appears, please change the protocol
from FTP to Amazon S3. Specify the desired bucket name and
your S3 credentials.
Buckets
Amazon S3 storage is divided into units called buckets. Each customer can create 100 buckets. However, you must find bucket names that no other customer has chosen yet. Within a bucket, you can store any number of folders and files.
Credentials
On the Internet Protocol Settings dialog, you can enter your S3 access details.
You can retrieve the credentials on the Amazon S3 web site.
You will probably want to choose the options Save Access ID and Save Secret Key.
Preserving Timestamps, Versioning
If you would like to preserve your files' timestamps on Amazon S3,
you should choose the option Filename Mangling. This also
enables you to using versioning and keep multiple versions of each
file in the backup storage.
There's a separate documentation page on
Versioning and Filename Mangling.
Compression / Zipping / Encryption
The files can also be zipped and encrypted. You will find these options on the Zip tab sheet. When combining compression with filename mangling, you must compress each file into a separate Zip file. So you should only use the two upper checkboxes on the Zip tab sheet.
Speeding things up with the Destination Cache
You can speed up reading the file list with the setting "Cache Destination File List...".
This can be used when you are uploading to a remote folder only from one local PC by doing regular backups.
Restoring Files From Backup Storage
Please read this documentation on performing a restore.
If you have any questions, please write an
email to our support!