I got one of the original MacMini’s when they were first released a couple of years ago. It’s ideal as a backup server / process automation tool.

I put together some Automator actions that work with Transmit FTP to automatically download the websites I run, their databases, etc. and then replicate that to a huge removable hard drive I have.

My paranoia being what it is, when I heard about Amazon’s S3 Service, I jumped at the possibility of triply backing up all my data onto Amazon’s S3 services as well. My efforts to automate this process have been less than successful as I was hoping to use a single application to achieve this. Panic has yet to release an update with S3 functionality.

Their competitor StairWays Software has updated Interarchy FTP with S3 “functionality”, for some incredibly feeble value of “functionality”. I download the demo, dropped my information in and was able to successfully list my Amazon S3 storage “buckets”, but where the app should have interpreted a series of sub-folders, it listed them only as files of type “dir”.

So for now, I have an automated solution for backing up my files, but the extra layer of safety is still a manual process of my dragging and dropping files onto a Jungle Disk managed connection to S3.

[tags]interarchy, osx, backups, s3, amazon[/tags]