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[Russell Stuart]

On Tue, 2010-02-02 at 14:25 +1000, Raymond Smith wrote:
> Would dropping files into different directories help? Maybe
> one-directory per base-backup?

I doubt it.  S3 states very clearly in their doco things like this can
happen.  For example then say if you put a file up then, then
immediately reconnect it is entirely possible it won't appear in the
directory listing.  It is not an ACID database, and doesn't pretend to
be one.

As I said, it doesn't compromise the backups in anyway.  The backup
program actually tracks the names of all files up there, and their MD5
sum.  Files re-appearing isn't bad, but if something bad did happen like
backups mysteriously disappearing or being changed we would know.

So is it only the noisy emails.  There is a simple solution to them if
it continues - just don't report files appearing out of thin air as
evidence of someone else modifying the backups.  Check for file
deletions and modifications only.