Feature Request: Support for Amazon S3 Reduced Redundancy Storage

[Jonathan Lumb]

I am currently using Amazon S3 and Déjà-Dup to backup documents on my Ubuntu machine. However, I would like to make use of the cheaper "Reduced Redundancy Storage" or "RRS" option that is available for Amazon S3 buckets.

The standard Amazon S3 storage is currently $0.140 per GB whilst the RRS storage is only $0.093 per GB - so there is a significant amount of money at stake if large backups are being made. It would be useful if there was an option to enable RRS storage in Déjà-Dup so that users can get the best value for money with their Amazon S3 account.

After some searching around, I noticed that this feature has already been implemented in part in this launchpad branch:
https://code.launchpad.net/~kaaloo/deja-dup/additional_s3_options

It seems a very simple fix to enable RRS for Amazon S3 in Déjà-Dup, although there would have to be an additional checkbox available in the UI too. I was wondering whether there has been any more recent progress on this front and if this code could be merged into the development release sometime soon? I would happily contribute myself but had a look at the code and feel a bit out of my depth - sorry!

I am sure this feature would be appreciated by many people who are increasingly choosing Amazon S3 as a cheap offsite backup solution.

Thanks for an already excellent application!

Jonathan

[Kevin Deldycke (kevin-deldycke-deactivatedaccount)]

FYI, I've just tested RRS support on Debian Squeeze with Duplicity 0.6.13-1~bpo60+1 (see: http://packages.debian.org/squeeze-backports/duplicity ). It works well thanks to the --s3-use-rrs option.

[Jonathan Lumb (jonolumb)]

Thanks Kevin - I've already had RRS support working with Duplicity.

I filed this bug as I think it would be very easy to implement this in Déjà-Dup and would be a feature that many Amazon S3 users might consider to save money.

[Michael Terry (mterry)]

Support for S3 has been removed, per our cloud policy that prefers consumer oriented cloud services. Duplicity can still be used directly to backup or restore your S3 files.

https://wiki.gnome.org/Apps/DejaDup/Clouds