Incremental encrypted remote backup using Amazon S3: Duplicity Incremental backup to another (remote) directory: rdiff-backup Easily available on Ubuntu using: sudo apt-get rdiff-backup Nice instructions for automating and scheduling backups. Simple backup by simply tar’ing everything, instructions on Ubuntu Forums.
Preparing For EC2 Persistent Storage. Using LVM + DRBD + NFS + Heartbeat + VTun To Gain Data Persistence, Redundancy, Automatic Fail-Over, and Read/Write Disk Access Across Multiple EC2 Nodes.
Amazon have started to do a lot things right lately. The 24×7 premium support, introducing the Service Health Dashboard, the latest improvements to EC2, and now lowering the data transfer costs: Current data transfer price (through April 30, 2008) $0.100 per GB – data transfer in $0.180 per GB – first 10 TB / month [...]