Anyone using Amazon S3 for backups?

[racingkoala]

I tried to configure a job to backup a folder to amazon S3. Speciied folder, keys, bucket, but when I start the backup job it returns “backup failed” without further explanation. I don’t see any logging activity from the amazon s3 console.

Comments anyone?

TIA
Luis

[ERmorel]

Hello,

See if the following link helps:

Getting Amazon S3 Backup Working... done!

To get S3 access working, a few tips that are not well done in the documentation. 1) The WD app asks for "Access Key" and "Private Key", but you will see that Amazon will create an Access Key and a Secret Access Key.  Simply use the Secret Access Key for the Private Key.  Since there is also a private/public key pair option with S3, this can be confusing 2) Remote Path - it was not clear to me what this is, but it is in fact simply the name of the TOP LEVEL bucket you create (indeed, there i…