Rafe's S3 backup story

March 7, 2007

"I was going to write a blog post comparing the advantages of backing up to your own storage device to those of backing up to Amazon S3, but the more I think about it, the more I think that there are very few advantages to buying an external hard drive these days, assuming you can find the right software to enable you to back up your data to S3 easily. For the $500 you spend on your hard drive, you can use a huge amount of the Amazon S3 service... " [snip]

Rafe is documenting his experience setting up an S3 account and using it to back up is data. A good read.