Remote Backup to Cloud Storage/Amazon S3

[jholder]

It's much easier just to rsync a zcs backup upstream to the cloud.

We use S3, and have had many outages with it. It's very annoying.

[atlee]

We are looking at S3. With a PUT charge for each of those little files, this could be expensive. Especially with many hard links getting expanded. How does one get around these problems to make S3 cost effective?