| Amazon S3 (Simple Storage Service) provides unlimited storage through a simple web services interface. Data can be easily stored and retrieved at any time, from anywhere on the web. Amazon charges in proportion to the amount of data stored and applies charges for sending and receiving data.
For more information click on the following link : http://aws.amazon.com/s3/faqs/ |
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| is DragonDisk a free software ? |
| DragonDisk is a freeware. It is distributed free of charge for any private and corporate use. It is provided "as is" without warranty of any kind. You may download it and install it on as many machines as you wish, copy it for other people; publish it in a Linux repository; but you may not incorporate DragonDisk into any "commercial" product or service.
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| Where is the documentation ? |
DragonDisk is still in development, I've not written documentation yet.
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| What are the other features scheduled ? |
| I have planned the following features :
- Support for Multipart Upload.
- Support for Google storage
- Properties dialog for multiple files.
- More sync options (filters...)
- Support for IAM (Identity and Access Management)
- Support for Cloudfront.
- Favorites Menu.
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| How to Install DragonDisk on Ubuntu Linux ? |
| For installing the package from a terminal, perform the following steps :
Ubuntu 11.10 and later require an old version of libssl to be installed :
sudo apt-get install libssl0.9.8
Ubuntu 32-bit :
Download the native package and install like this :
wget http://download.dragondisk.com/dragondisk_0.9.6-0ubuntu_i386.deb
sudo apt-get install libqt4-dbus libqt4-network libqt4-xml libqtcore4 libqtgui4
sudo dpkg -i dragondisk_0.9.6-0ubuntu_i386.deb
Ubuntu 64-bit ( >= 10.04 ) :
Download the native package and install like this :
wget http://download.dragondisk.com/dragondisk_0.9.6-0ubuntu_amd64.deb
sudo apt-get install libqt4-dbus libqt4-network libqt4-xml libqtcore4 libqtgui4
sudo dpkg -i dragondisk_0.9.6-0ubuntu_amd64.deb
To start the Application, enter :
dragondisk
You can also start it from the KDE/Gnome GUI menu ( Applications -> Internet -> DragonDisk )
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| How to Schedule a backup ? |
| This feature is not available in DragonDisk. But you can schedule a backup using the command-line tool. |
| How to synchronize files with Amazon S3 using “dgsync” command ? |
| Here is a sample script for Linux...
#!/bin/bash
# export http_proxy=http://username:password@host:port/
#
export DGTOOLS_ACCESS_KEY=myAccessKey
export DGTOOLS_SECRET_KEY=mySecretKey
dgsync /home/user/data/ s3://bucket-name/folder/
... and Windows
rem SET http_proxy=http://username:password@host:port/
rem
SET DGTOOLS_ACCESS_KEY=myAccessKey
SET DGTOOLS_SECRET_KEY=mySecretKey
dgsync.exe "C:\My Folder" "s3://bucket-name/My Folder/"
The following options are available:
-v --verbose Verbose.
-V --version Display the version number.
-D --debug Debug mode
-h --help Display a help screen.
-t --threads Number of threads (default: 2).
-z --compress Compress file data.
-h --hidden-files Include hidden files.
-s --system-files Include system files.
-l --symbolic-links Do not ignore symbolic links. (Linux/Mac only)
-A --access-key Access Key ID.
-S --secret-key Secret Key.
--ssl Enable SSL/HTTPS
--keep-new If a file exists in the source and target folders,
do not replace the target file if it is newer than
the source file.
--dont-delete If a file exists in the target folder but not the source,
do not delete the target file.
--dont-add If a file exists in the source folder but not the target,
do not copy the source file.
--dont-replace If a file exists in the source and target folders,
do not replace the target file.
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| I make software for my french customers. My company is located in the south of France and I'm specialized in C++ development with the Nokia QT framework. I develop DragonDisk in my spare time.
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