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Experimenting with Backups: From EC2 (or any networked unix box) to S3

If you’re wondering if there’s a difference between backups in the Service-oriented Cloud and backups that the rest of the world is familiar with… well… there are 5 key differences mostly stemming from the fact that cloud backups are service-based

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Automatic Cloud Backups: How to copy your Amazon EC2 instance snapshots into S3 bit buckets.

Now with cloud computing you can delete entire computers with a touch of a button! So what if it happens by accident? No problem, you have a backup… right? Here is a script you may find useful for when you

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