Been using UNIX since the late 80s; Linux since the mid-90s; virtualization since the early 2000s and spent the past few years working in the cloud space.
Location
Alexandria, VA, USA
Education
B.S. Psychology from Pennsylvania State University
Oof... Generally would not recommend using S3's sync subcommand. While, yeah, it will get all your files there, it gets them there at the cost of filesystem attributes (ownerships, xattrs, ACLs, SELinux labels, etc.). If you care about those types of things, then you want to encapsulate your filesystem data in something that's filesystem aware. Fortunately, the AWS S3 CLI does allow you to do piped inputs ...meaning you can use your filesystem's native incremental backup utility, dump to store incremental, attribute-aware backups of your data.
Only down side is, if you don't know (roughly) how big your dump is going to be, the S3 CLI will tend to single-stream your data. For a day's worth of activity, this is probably OK, but if you're doing a full backup, it can make things painfully slow (particularly if backing up over links that have session-limits).
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Oof... Generally would not recommend using S3's sync subcommand. While, yeah, it will get all your files there, it gets them there at the cost of filesystem attributes (ownerships, xattrs, ACLs, SELinux labels, etc.). If you care about those types of things, then you want to encapsulate your filesystem data in something that's filesystem aware. Fortunately, the AWS S3 CLI does allow you to do piped inputs ...meaning you can use your filesystem's native incremental backup utility,
dumpto store incremental, attribute-aware backups of your data.Only down side is, if you don't know (roughly) how big your dump is going to be, the S3 CLI will tend to single-stream your data. For a day's worth of activity, this is probably OK, but if you're doing a full backup, it can make things painfully slow (particularly if backing up over links that have session-limits).