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S3 Backup – Fail-safe, Encrypted Online Backup

S3 Backup is a fail-safe, encrypted online backup solution. It's in a beta-test phase and some features aren't available yet.

S3 Backup is powered by Amazon S3 – highly scalable, reliable, fast, inexpensive data storage infrastructure that Amazon uses to run its own global network of web sites. When using S3 Backup you ensure that your data are stored in multiple locations through the world, making it safe even in the event of natural disaster or sabotage.

  • Current version: S3 Backup beta 14 rev.215 - updated 18.04.2008.
    • If the app doesn't start with some ImportError, uninstall and reinstall it
  • Previous version: S3 Backup beta 13 rev.1390
    • If you get "Can't parse XML.." error on startup, delete %appdata%/S3 Backup/hashdb.xml and install current version

Custom versions for offsite data backup for business users are available.

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Features:

  • Authentication and password protection for your credentials (encrypted with Blowfish) (starting from beta 7 credentials are always encrypted, even when user opts not to use password)
  • Streaming uploads, downloads and deletion of files and folders in your S3 buckets
  • Backup jobs
    • Intuitive interface to include folders in the backup set
    • Uploads only files modified since last run (this is known as differential backup). Modified files are detected with a smart algorithm that avoids disk thrashing
    • Scheduling
  • Unicode support
  • Instant feedback
  • Drag'n'drop
  • New in beta 4: Handling of 1000+ items per folder.
  • New in beta 4: Encryption with Blowfish or AES
  • New in beta 4: Compression with zlib or bz2
  • New in beta 7: Better, more reliable S3 and connection errors handling
  • New in beta 7: Logging console (accessible via shortcut Ctrl+L or menu Help → Show debug log)
  • New in beta 7: Persistence for encryption and compression settings
  • New in beta 7: Configuration is now stored in user-specific location: (/document and settings/$username/application data/s3 backup/)
  • New in beta 8: Fully independent and parallel uploads, downloads and backups
  • New in beta 9: Scheduling
  • New in beta 9: Option to propagate locally deleted files
  • New in beta 9: Proxy support
  • New in beta 9: Option to use HTTP instead of HTTPS
  • New in beta 9: Improved uninstall
  • New in beta 9: Better debug console