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by BrianHenryIE 1191 days ago
JungleDisk was backup software I used ~2009 that allowed mounting S3. They were bought by Rackspace and the product wasn't updated. Seems to be called/part of Cyberfortress now.

Later I used Panic's Transmit Disk but they removed the feature.

Recently I'd been looking at s3fs-fuse to use with gocryptfs but haven't actually installed it yet!

https://github.com/s3fs-fuse/s3fs-fuse

https://github.com/rfjakob/gocryptfs
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legorobot 1191 days ago
We've used the s3fs-fuse library for a while at work for SFTP/FTP server alternatives (AWS wants you to pay $150+/server/month last I checked!) and it's worked like a dream. We scripted the setup of new users via a simple bash script and the S3 CloudWatch events for file uploads is a dream. Its been pretty seamless and hasn't caused many headaches.

We've had to perform occasional maintenance but its operated for years with no major issues. 99% are solved with a server restart + a startup script to auto-re-mount s3fs-fuse in all the appropriate places.

Give them a try, I recommend it!

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CharlesW 1191 days ago
> Later I used Panic's Transmit Disk but they removed the feature.

BTW, Panic seemingly intends to re-build Transmit Disk. Hopefully it'll be part of Transmit 6: https://help.panic.com/transmit/transmit5/transmit-disk/#tec...

A supported macOS option appears to be Mountain Duck: https://mountainduck.io/

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drcongo 1190 days ago
ForkLift also lets you mount S3 as a drive. https://binarynights.com
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