Amazon S3 and rsync snapshots?

[James Kramer]

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> 2. The rsync snapshots process uses hard links to make each daily backup
> directory look like a complete filesystem -- daily.0, daily.1,
> daily.2, etc. are
> all complete filesystems from different days, but files that are the same in
> all of these are hard-linked to a single instance, so it doesn't waste storage
> space with multiple copies of the same file. Is it possible to do the same
> with an s3-based solution?
>

John,

Here is a link to a discussion about S3 and Rsync that may be of value
http://townx.org/blog/elliot/thoughts_on_rsync_and_s3

Jay