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Wednesday, 31 May 2017 09:20 CDT

jonasryser

Hi,

I read a ticket saying that you don't want to support other S3 compatible providers than Amazon. You were saying that they were not compatible with Amazon and it would mean a lot of work to adapt each of them. I don't agree: Synology does it with their backup solution for NAS drives: You can choose S3 compatible storage, enter the API url and it just works, we backup 1.3 TB of data using it. I think that should be possible for Akeeba Backup Pro as well.

There are other reasons than pricing for not using Amazon: Bad support, privacy issues, unethical behaviour like tax evasion or abuse of market power. Amazon is a no-go for a lot of users and it would be easy to implement for example aruba.it. Since there are some libraries for S3 servers on linux there is an increasing number of providers offering S3 in their own datacenter.

Wednesday, 31 May 2017 10:23 CDT

nicholas

I have no idea what you are referring to. For the past seven years we have supported custom S3 endpoints as you can read in our documentation. The option is "Custom endpoint" and I quote:

Enter the custom endpoint (connection URL) of a third party service which supports an Amazon S3 compatible API. Please remember to set the Signature method to v2 when using this option.

What I have said in the past is the exact opposite of what you are claiming. I've said that I'm not going to have custom post-processing methods in Akeeba Backup which merely interface with a third party's implementation of the legacy S3 API because it's useless busywork. The S3 method allows for custom endpoints, you can just use it.

Also note that despite what you think, we are not forcing you to use Amazon S3 if you absolutely don't want to. We already support over 40 different remote storage providers. In fact we have 4 generic storage providers: Amazon S3 Legacy (can be used with third party services), FTP, SFTP and WebDAV. We have already hundreds of clients uploading backups to Synology NAS on their premises using either of these methods. Please read the documentation.

Nicholas K. Dionysopoulos

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Thursday, 15 June 2017 02:45 CDT

jonasryser

Hi,

I can't find the ticket again, but it said what I wrote above: No plans to support other S3 services than Amazon. After having read that and not seing an option to use S3 compatible storage I gave up reading.
After having read your answer I found the option, I didn't check "Upload to Amazon S3" for that.

Regards,
Jonas

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