Here's one way to do it:

apt-get install trickle
trickle -u 100  -d 100 tklbam-backup

We recommend the following package:

apt-get install iftop
iftop

Amazon S3 cloud storage fees are around $0.15/GB per month.

You can use simulation mode to calculate how much uncompressed data TKLBAM is going to store in a full backup:

$ tklbam-backup --simulate
CREATING /TKLBAM
FULL UNCOMPRESSED FOOTPRINT: 148.30 MB in 6186 files

In practice, the actual footprint of a full backup will usually be smaller due to compression, but this depends on the type of data being compressed (e.g., text compresses very well, video very poorly).

If you notice $0.00 in the backups console, there's no need to open a support request. It's not a bug. At 15 cents per gigabyte, if you have just a few megabytes of data Amazon doesn't charge you anything.

Backups start from around 100KB for a freshly installed TurnKey appliance. Remember, TKLBAM only saves changes you've made since the appliance was installed.

No! TKLBAM stores backups in the cloud for convenience, but it also supports local / custom backup storage targets.

There are two main alternatives to letting TKLBAM store a backup in the cloud:

1. Low-level tklbam-backup --dump option: lets you dump the raw TKLBAM backup extract to a directory, which you can then store anyway you like.

   For example here's how we'd a system backup into a simple unencrypted tarball:

Please note that new(er) Hub accounts DO use generic S3 buckets for backup storage. We will be transitioning existing users to the new system in the future. We will contact users individually when the time comes.

1. Easier sign up process. Users don't need to know anything about S3 API keys or understand the implications of giving them to us.
2. Security: you don't need to give us access to your generic S3 account. If someone compromises your regular AWS API Key they still can't get to your encrypted backup volumes and say... delete them.
3. Cost transparency: TKLBAM related storage charges show up separately from your generic S3 storage.

Amazon supports payment by credit card and bank account. We recommend heavy users add a bank account as their payment method, as it's usually more permanent than a credit card.

In any case, if your payment method is invalidated (e.g., cancelled or expired credit card), billing will fail and Amazon will attempt to contact you (e.g., by e-mail) to provide a new, valid payment method.