[OpenAFS] vos dumps to S3 via S3 Storage Gateway?

[Dave Botsch]

How would one go about building OpenAFS as such? Any documentation
someplace?

Thanks.

On Mon, Feb 27, 2017 at 11:02:05PM -0500, Jeffrey Altman wrote:
> Few are aware that OpenAFS can be built to support IBM TSM as a virtual
> tape controller via the XBSA API.  AWS S3 could be added in a similar
> manner.
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> The primary thing that I would want to add whenever storing backups
> off-site is encryption.  AFS3 volume dumps are unencrypted.  I would
> pipe the dump stream through a block cipher before passing it into the
> AWS CLI.
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> Jeffrey Altman
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> On 2/27/2017 2:42 PM, Shane wrote:
> > We have a legacy EC2 environment setup in which vos dumps are pulled =
in
> > by Zmanda backup, using a custom tar wrapper. These are stored on s3 =
via
> > Zmanda's virtual tape devices. We have a lifecycle setup to migrate t=
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> > vos dumps to Glacier after some time.=20
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> > Looks like a feature was added to the AWS CLI that allows for dumping
> > via a stream which looks interesting
> > though: https://github.com/aws/aws-cli/pull/903
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> > On Mon, Feb 27, 2017 at 10:50 AM, Walter Tienken <Walter.Tienken@asu.=
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> > <mailto:Walter.Tienken@asu.edu>> wrote:
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> >     Hello all,____
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> >     We currently perform nightly dumps to an on-prem NFS mount. I was
> >     curious if anyone has had any experience with using an Amazon S3
> >     Storage Gateway for similar purpose? With much of the focus of =E2=
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> >     the cloud=E2=80=9D with many leadership members/organization admi=
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> >     I figured it is a good question to ask here. If yes, what has bee=
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> >     your experience so far? Do you pass through the public internet o=
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> >     perhaps use Amazon Direct Connect?____
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> >     Thanks in advance for your input!____
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> >     Walter Tienken____
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> >     walter.tienken@asu.edu <mailto:walter.tienken@asu.edu>____
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> >     UTO OPS Systems and Security____
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