How to auto archive content to amazon cloud drive?

[ComputerGuy2006]

Hi,

Anyone have a solution to auto upload content to the amazon cloud drive (that is put in a designated folder) and have it auto delete the local copy once the upload is done? Seems most of the apps out there are just a simple sync.

I also looked at maybe coding an amazon app. But they now force you to go thru some sort of invitation system and jump thru more hoops. This is all made worse due to a policy that forbids encryption, probably due to dedupe (or a secret NSA deal).

Solutions?

 

[John Connor]

You might want to try a FTP solution. Although, that doesn't delete the source file. Perhaps certain FTP software has that option.

Here are some links on doing this.

http://cloudacademy.com/blog/s3-ftp-server/

http://stackoverflow.com/questions/23939179/ftp-sftp-access-to-an-amazon-s3-bucket

https://winscp.net/eng/docs/guide_amazon_s3_sftp

Or you can skip all that crap and just use CrossFTP. http://www.crossftp.com/amazon-s3-client.htm

http://www.crossftp.com/kb/entry/45/

or a secret NRA deal

You mean NSA?

 

[ComputerGuy2006]

I am not using the s3 (well I am soon, but not for this personal project), I am using the regular consumer amazon cloud drive. The s3 (probably) does not have any rules about encryption and I also think it doesn't force you to jump thru hoops to connect to it using an API.

I gave this some more thought and I can think of three solutions, the simple one without any programing might be: Use a sync app to sync a folder, every month or so, close the sync app, go the amazon cloud drive in a browser, move those items to another folder, delete the files on my local folder, and start the sync app again.

 

[ComputerGuy2006]

My current solution: Using odrive to sync, it has a feature that allows you to unlink files (deletes them locally to save space). Not the perfect solution, but better then nothing.

 

[John Connor]

What is the Amazon cloud drive you are using called? I thought S3 was there only bucket option for this sort of thing. I know about S2 and Cloudfront of course, but I reckon that is different.

 

[ComputerGuy2006]

https://www.amazon.com/clouddrive/home

Its $60 a year for unlimited non-commercial backups. Not sure what countries its available in (USA and Canada at least) but I do know some people outside of these countries months ago who managed to get in.

Basically you either upload using their web interface or there badly designed desktop uploaded. None of the options have any sync options. There have been people who reported uploading a few TB's and not getting bothered by amazon.

Their web interface also has MD5 information if you using a web debug tool like firebug to look the GET request (so if you wanted, you could manually confirm md5 checksum on very important uploads).