[ExI] Techie question: best/fastest WAN file system solution

Jef Allbright jef at jefallbright.net
Sat Aug 2 22:22:30 UTC 2008


On Sat, Aug 2, 2008 at 3:14 PM, Samantha  Atkins <sjatkins at mac.com> wrote:

> One thing that I grapple with a lot is how i/we can use network resources
> efficiently in at least small steps towards extending our brains via
> hardware and the network.   One aspect of this is looking for and using the
> most efficient means of having the equivalent of fast dependable cloud data
> storage and retrieval.

I'm pretty satisfied for now reading/writing Amazon S3 (mainly using
Python with Boto) for wide-access general storage and for files
feeding servers running in Amazon EC2, and using a combination of
rsync and Git over ssh to replicate between workstations (and my
notebook.)

- Jef



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