Online backups for the truly paranoid

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Tarsnap is a secure online backup service for BSD, Linux, OS X, Minix, Solaris, Cygwin, and probably many other UNIX-like operating systems. The Tarsnap client code provides a flexible and powerful command-line interface which can be used directly or via shell scripts.

Pyfilesystem is a Python module that provides a simplified common interface to many types of filesystem. Filesystems exposed via Pyfilesystem can also be served over the network, or 'mounted' on the native filesystem.

Pyfilesystem simplifies working directories and paths, even if you only intend to work with local files. Differences in path formats between platforms are abstracted away, and you can write code that sand-boxes any changes to a given directory.

Pyfilesystem works with Linux, Windows and Mac.

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It occurred to me while I was researching serving static files from Apache, Lighttpd or nginx that why do I even bother?
I'm a strong fan of Amazon's web services. Especially their Simple Storage Solution (S3).

So, I messed around with my DNS settings at the wonderful SliceHost (http://slicehost.com) and found some info online about mapping a CNAME record to my S3 bucket and then BAM! Instant static media hosting!

I had to make one small change to my settings.py file. I changed the ADMIN_MEDIA_PREFIX to ADMIN_MEDIA_PREFIX = 'http://media.bitcircle.com/'

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