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📣 bosch_mind

Any good reads, articles or books on file migration?


I’m looking to build a tool to migrate files between cloud providers (ie blob storage, s3, etc).

I’m looking to learn best practices for doing so. The volume is a few petabytes but can be done incrementally.

I was thinking some queue that handles N transfers concurrently running in a k8s cluster. Queue I was thinking Redis or Kafka. However, I’d love to build something nice and resilient


  👤 warrenm Accepted Answer ✓
Don't have any articles handy (beyond the various cloud providers' offerings which you can find with a quick "s3 to s3 migration" search)

But the egress and ingress fees, added-onto the middleman position your tool would be occupying sound heavy :)


👤 mattpallissard
This tool already exists and is fairly standard. No extra infra required.

https://rclone.org/