Support regional S3 access

[Richard Hughes]

I like in the UK, and need to use the --s3-european-buckets option to duplicity. I would love to use deja-dup, but this option can't be passed as an environment variable and there's no checkbox in the UI. One checkbox and one option would make my life much easier. Thanks!

[Michael Terry (mterry)]

There's now also an Asian (Singapore) region.

[exactt (giesbert)]

as this option is only required upon creation of the bucket it would be useful to be able to either set the name of a pre-existing bucket or be asked upon creation of the bucket by deja dup.

looking forward to see either option implemented. thx for the great tool!

[Craig Loftus (craigloftus)]

Manually setting the bucket name to one you've created within AWS with the correct region seems to work fine and is a relatively simple hack. I was inspired by the answer to question 81409 [1], the required dconf command is below and more details were an excuse for a blog post [2].

$ dconf write /org/gnome/deja-dup/s3/bucket \'bucket-name\'

[1] https://answers.launchpad.net/deja-dup/+question/81409
[2] http://craigloftus.net/blog/2011/10/13/changing-the-s3-bucket-region-with-deja-dup/