[Box Backup-dev] Re: [Box Backup] ChrisMerge_1828

[Chris Wilson]

Hi Pete,

> Chris Wilson wrote:
>
>>> I think that Pete Jalajas has an OpenSSL script that generates keys on 
>>> Windows.
>
> Sorry, no, I never wrote that script.  My customers haven't cared about 
> whether or not I have access to their Box Backup keys, so I just 
> generate them myself on my Ubuntu Box Backup CA box. I'd be glad to 
> attempt to write that script if there is significant need, after I 
> double check with Chris to make sure it is not already in Boxi.

Sorry, my bad, although I could have sworn I remembered you telling me 
about a script to drive OpenSSL on Windows. There will be a GUI in Boxi to 
generate certificates, but not a script.

> (For the record, I'd rather Chris worked on the Windows named pipe issue 
> so that we can get easy client-side geo-redundancy.

I'm on it ;-)

> Speaking of geo-redundancy, I right now have a 5GB Box Backup client 
> test syncing up to my Box Backup image instance running on Amazon's EC2. 
> I'm working on how to mount my S3 account to that EC2 instance so that I 
> can get around the 160GB limit, probably by buying S3InfiDisk/S3DFS for 
> now, unless someone has a better idea.  Thoughts anyone?)

What is the 160GB limit? Virtual hard disk space in EC2?

I wish we could back up direct to Amazon S3, but they don't offer the 
necessary features for diffing, for example, to have a bandwidth-efficient 
implementation. s3sync with encryption is about as good as you can get 
right now.

It would be very nice to be able to mount S3 as a drive in an EC2 image 
and run bbstored in that image, especially as Amazon don't charge for 
data transfer between EC2 and S3. But I don't know of any system to do 
that at the moment. Perhaps a FUSE filesystem wouldn't be too hard to 
write?

If someone could sponsor me either an S3 account or an EC2 server then I 
could probably work on it. Alternatively, perhaps one of the newer S3 
competitors will provide a more full-featured API.

Cheers, Chris.
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