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#27095 backing up to amazon drive

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Latest post by on Sunday, 12 March 2017 18:17 CDT

Friday, 10 February 2017 02:35 CST

cvve.bailleau
Hello

(First i want to say that i Love Akeeba backup, especially kickstart that DOES work IRL, trust me !)

Yet another ticket about external back up to Amazon Drive !

I know that Nicholas keeps on replying to Amazon Drive related tickets by saying : "Amazon Cloud Drive is a consumer product, meant to store media files (pictures, videos, music) that you've purchased through Amazon or created through your mobile device. It cannot be used for storing arbitrary binary data such as backups"

However, i disagree with that assertion.
It might have been true in the past, but presently Amazon Drive DOES allow users to store arbitrary binary files in addition to media files : For instance, my Synology NAS is configured to back up to Amazon Drive.

So, do you have any plans to include support for Amazon drive in th external backup feature ?

Looking forward to your reply ..

Anthony

Friday, 10 February 2017 04:06 CST

nicholas
You are wrong, actually. Please read https://developer.amazon.com/amazon-drive

Amazon Drive API access is only by invitation. If you do not have an invitation you cannot even see the API, let alone use it. We don't have an invitation so that discussion ends right there.

Moreover, they only allow "supported use cases". I wouldn't believe that "Really big backup archive files of sites that are going to be sitting on your service forever" would be a supported use case. The reason is rather simple. They offer you "free, unlimited" storage. Last time I checked hard drives cost a lot of money and they have limited storage. So Amazon is footing a really large bill. Why? Because you and your data are the product. By scanning your media and documents they know what you want before you even know it yourself. This information is used for targeted marketing which means that you get to buy from them and pay for your data storage (and turn them a good profit). Shoving a large, bespoke format archive of a site doesn't let them monetize your data. So that wouldn't be a supported use case.

In case you're wondering why Synology's use case is supported since it's so "similar": it is not similar, at all. NAS are primarily used to store media and documents, i.e. things that can be analyzed to figure out what you're interested in. See how different is the expected data you're going to store in each case?

We can request an API invitation but I don't think we'll ever get a positive reply. Don't hold your breath.

Nicholas K. Dionysopoulos

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Sunday, 12 March 2017 18:17 CDT

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