RE: using Google Cloud for virtual tapes

Google Cloud is somewhat difficult because they don't fully the support Amazon S3 operations.   One cannot upload blocks and "CopyPart" them into a larger object.   Wasabi and S3 and others can do that.

There needs to be a simple overhaul of the "millions of blocks" upload technique (non-multipart backups) so that it can be done without O(n) checks for every DLE.

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> At a customer I have to somehow move the backups into Google Cloud (the
> company moves everything there).
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> Does anyone already combine that with amanda somehow?
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> They forwarded me this:
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> I could think of using amvault to *copy* vtape content there.
>
> And I find "Cloud Storage FUSE" which allows to mount such a storage bucket.
>
> Does anyone here have experience with this and Amanda backups?
>
> thanks, regards, Stefan
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