Amazon S3 Lifecycle support in Syncovery

[donw146]

See https://docs.aws.amazon.com/AmazonS3/la ... nsition-sc for references.

Amazon S3 allows you to define lifecycle rules to transition objects from one storage class to another. I'd like to transition my music collection from STANDARD to STANDARD_IA. I'm hoping that I can still backup the collection with one Syncovery profile that defines a regular (STANDARD) S3 bucket and that it will still work when the objects in the bucket get transitioned to STANDARD_IA. Once the transitions start there will always be a mix of STANDARD and STANDARD_IA objects.

Does Syncovery currently support this?

Are there any profile changes required or settings to watch for to make this work?

[superflexible]

This is not an issue. The objects will still be there and Syncovery will see them. The profiles will not be affected in any way.

In addition, the latest version of Syncovery can use STANDARD_IA for uploading. See the settings on the Internet dialog box.

[donw146]

Thanks for the reply - I'm glad to know this is supported. I've looked at the costs:

https://aws.amazon.com/s3/pricing/

and the comparison of STANDARD vs STANDARD_IA:

https://aws.amazon.com/s3/storage-classes/

and am planning to move all my buckets to a lifecycle that migrates them to STANDARD_IA after 30 - 60 days. Most of my files don't change once I back them up and the other ones change fairly frequently. I only use my buckets for backup and haven't needed to recover a significant amount of data so far. This should save almost 60% on my S3 storage costs.

Any comments about this plan or gotchas that I missed would be welcome. Thanks for reading.

[superflexible]

I think it will be all fine.