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Amazon BackupFrom $1Table of contentsCombined revision comparisonSynapse is able to use Amazon's large redundant infrastructure to store backups of all your scanned files in the cache-listener directory as well as your remr.fdb database. When this is running as expected, then you can restore completely all your files to another PC in the event of a catostrophe. The Amazon service that provides storage is called S3. The costs are minimal at about 10c per Gb of storage. Traffic charges between your server and S3 are a similar 10c per Gb of traffic. Synapse also uses the SQS or simple queing service to send messages between various components. The charge for messages is very small - 1c per 10,000 messages, and again 10c per Gb of message traffic. You need to sign up for both services at http://aws.amazon.com/ after first signing up for an AWS account. To make things easier to manipulate the S3 folders, and for other purposes, install the S3 organizer for Firefox which is found http://www.s3fox.net/ You need to enter your access key, and secret key into the S3 organizer. You can fetch those keys from "Your Account/Security Credentials" when logged into your Amazon account. Create Buckets You now need to use S3 Organizer to create two buckets ( folders ). These names are shared across all of Amazon S3 so they have to be uninque. The first folder is used to store all the scans, and so we will call it "synapsescans", and the other is to hold backups of the remr.fdb database and we will call it "synapsedb". You won't be able to use those names though .. this is just for instructional purposes. Enter Credentials Into Synapse Go to the Settings/User/Backup S3 tab, and enter all the credentials and bucket names. The Encryption key is used to encrypt your scans. Make this about 8 characters long, and write it down somewhere safe. Without it, you will not be able to decrypt your scans even though you may be able to download them! The compression password also needs to be written down. This is used to protect your remr.fdb file when it is compressed with 7z prior to storing on S3. Start the Backup Once the credentials have all been entered, restart the Synapse server. This will then start up the sss.exe backup agent. It may take a few days to backup all your scans if you have many 1000s of scans. You can look at the progress by using the [Fetch Status] button. The backup is intentionally slow so that it does not steal too much CPU time from your server.
Version from 20:04, 6 Sep 2009Synapse is able to use Amazon's large redundant infrastructure to store backups of all your scanned files in the cache-listener directory as well as your remr.fdb database. When this is running as expected, then you can restore completely all your files to another PC in the event of a catostrophe. The Amazon service that provides storage is called S3. The costs are minimal at about 10c per Gb of storage. Traffic charges between your server and S3 are a similar 10c per Gb of traffic. Synapse also uses the SQS or simple queing service to send messages between various components. The charge for messages is very small - 1c per 10,000 messages, and again 10c per Gb of message traffic. You need to sign up for both services at http://aws.amazon.com/ after first signing up for an AWS account. To make things easier to manipulate the S3 folders, and for other purposes, install the S3 organizer for Firefox which is found http://www.s3fox.net/ You need to enter your access key, and secret key into the S3 organizer. You can fetch those keys from "Your Account/Security Credentials" when logged into your Amazon account. Create Buckets You now need to use S3 Organizer to create two buckets ( folders ). These names are shared across all of Amazon S3 so they have to be uninque. The first folder is used to store all the scans, and so we will call it "synapsescans", and the other is to hold backups of the remr.fdb database and we will call it "synapsedb". You won't be able to use those names though .. this is just for instructional purposes. Enter Credentials Into Synapse Go to the Settings/User/Backup S3 tab, and enter all the credentials and bucket names. The Encryption key is used to encrypt your scans. Make this about 8 characters long, and write it down somewhere safe. Without it, you will not be able to decrypt your scans even though you may be able to download them! The compression password also needs to be written down. This is used to protect your remr.fdb file when it is compressed with 7z prior to storing on S3.
Current versionSynapse is able to use Amazon's large redundant infrastructure to store backups of all your scanned files in the cache-listener directory as well as your remr.fdb database. When this is running as expected, then you can restore completely all your files to another PC in the event of a catostrophe. The Amazon service that provides storage is called S3. The costs are minimal at about 10c per Gb of storage. Traffic charges between your server and S3 are a similar 10c per Gb of traffic. Synapse also uses the SQS or simple queing service to send messages between various components. The charge for messages is very small - 1c per 10,000 messages, and again 10c per Gb of message traffic. You need to sign up for both services at http://aws.amazon.com/ after first signing up for an AWS account. To make things easier to manipulate the S3 folders, and for other purposes, install the S3 organizer for Firefox which is found http://www.s3fox.net/ You need to enter your access key, and secret key into the S3 organizer. You can fetch those keys from "Your Account/Security Credentials" when logged into your Amazon account. Create Buckets You now need to use S3 Organizer to create two buckets ( folders ). These names are shared across all of Amazon S3 so they have to be uninque. The first folder is used to store all the scans, and so we will call it "synapsescans", and the other is to hold backups of the remr.fdb database and we will call it "synapsedb". You won't be able to use those names though .. this is just for instructional purposes. Enter Credentials Into Synapse Go to the Settings/User/Backup S3 tab, and enter all the credentials and bucket names. The Encryption key is used to encrypt your scans. Make this about 8 characters long, and write it down somewhere safe. Without it, you will not be able to decrypt your scans even though you may be able to download them! The compression password also needs to be written down. This is used to protect your remr.fdb file when it is compressed with 7z prior to storing on S3. Start the Backup Once the credentials have all been entered, restart the Synapse server. This will then start up the sss.exe backup agent. It may take a few days to backup all your scans if you have many 1000s of scans. You can look at the progress by using the [Fetch Status] button. The backup is intentionally slow so that it does not steal too much CPU time from your server.
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