Thanks, all!

I was exploring rclone a bit on Friday and admit I had some trouble getting
the mount command to work to my local machine. I'll check in with our IT
folks and find out whether EC2 or Lightsail would be an acceptable solution.

Best,
Chris

On Sat, Jan 8, 2022 at 10:41 AM Cary Gordon <[log in to unmask]> wrote:

> I agree. Mounting the bucket on a Lightsail or EC2 instance using s3fs-fuse
> or yas3fs, and running FITS there is a (moderately) easy and cheap
> solution.
>
> Thanks,
>
> Cary
>
> On Fri, Jan 7, 2022 at 1:20 PM Steinberg, Benjamin <
> [log in to unmask]> wrote:
>
> > You could try s3fs: https://github.com/s3fs-fuse/s3fs-fuse
> >
> > If the archive is very large, you might not want to pay for egress, so
> you
> > could consider running FITS on an EC2 instance.
> >
> > Ben
> >
> > On 1/7/22, 12:50 PM, "Code for Libraries on behalf of Chris Mayo" <
> > [log in to unmask] on behalf of [log in to unmask]> wrote:
> >
> >     Hi all,
> >
> >     I've recently become caretaker for a large audio archive, both
> > physical and
> >     digital. I'm planning a large-scale digitization project for the
> > physicals
> >     that haven't been digitized yet, but the digital collection consists
> of
> >     both born-digital material and files that have been digitized from
> the
> >     physical collection at various points over the last 25 years.
> >
> >     I've been requested to re-digitize files that don't meet modern
> > standards,
> >     so I need to run FITS over the entire digital archive. The hang-up is
> > that
> >     the archive lives in an Amazon S3 bucket which is the backend of the
> > system
> >     we use to serve files to clients. I can't figure out how to point
> FITS
> > at
> >     the bucket, since it's not mounted to my local system, and I can't
> > format
> >     the path properly. Has anyone else tried this?
> >
> >     Thanks,
> >     Chris
> >
> >
>
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