From 21b4e695e9f2511d91b0ddb147bee9c9eab51aeb Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: "https://www.google.com/accounts/o8/id?id=AItOawl699qPx-vl_R9tRPPU9THiNKWk75hbLRw" Date: Fri, 6 Mar 2015 05:13:23 +0000 Subject: --- doc/todo/Facilitate_public_pretty_S3_URLs.mdwn | 16 ++++++++++++++++ 1 file changed, 16 insertions(+) create mode 100644 doc/todo/Facilitate_public_pretty_S3_URLs.mdwn (limited to 'doc') diff --git a/doc/todo/Facilitate_public_pretty_S3_URLs.mdwn b/doc/todo/Facilitate_public_pretty_S3_URLs.mdwn new file mode 100644 index 000000000..328eae27f --- /dev/null +++ b/doc/todo/Facilitate_public_pretty_S3_URLs.mdwn @@ -0,0 +1,16 @@ +I archive all my photos/video to a bucket CNAMED to http://s.natalian.org/ with a simple YYYY-MM-DD prefix. + +E.g. + +I'm not doing a great job of backing up the S3 bucket to another S3 compatible host, since `s3cmd sync`/`aws sync` is so slow, but that's beside the point. Ideally it could be tracked by **git-annex**! + +Adding all the objects into git-annex, IIUC currently would require me: + +* to download the ~80GB and then add them to git-annex +* there is no way to keep my current S3 URLs with the [[special_remotes/S3]] since `git-annex` has it's own special way of storing to a bucket, e.g. https://s3-ap-southeast-1.amazonaws.com/s3-10418340-834d-41c2-b38f-7ee84bf6a23a/SHA256E-s1034208123--235e4f288d094c2e1870bc3d9d353abf34542c04c1d26905e882718a7ccf74cf.mp4 - I'd rather not have HTTP redirects +* AFAICT there is no way currently with git-annex to mark the [[special_remotes/S3]] as public, which is needed for public URLs to work +* AFAICT there is no current automated method the mapping via `git-annex addurl` with the public URLs of the each file in the bucket + +The ideal solution in my mind is for git-annex to track the contents of S3 as they are now, preserving the URLs and tracking the checksums in a separate index file. + +Thank you! -- cgit v1.2.3