p6steve has asked for the wisdom of the Perl Monks concerning the following question:

I use rsync/cron/perl/smb on my home Linux box to automate backups (as disk copies). I want to add a remote backup channel using Net::Amazon::S3. What are my options for serializing about 2G of files (jpgs / mp4s / docs) in a directory tree to replace 'T' in the following??? 
# store a key with a content-type and some optional metadata
my $keyname = 'testing.txt';
my $value   = 'T';
$bucket_obj->add_key(
    $keyname, $value,
    {   content_type        => 'text/plain',
        'x-amz-meta-colour' => 'orange',
    }
);

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Re: Amazon S3 Backup Serialize
by shmem (Chancellor) on Nov 27, 2006 at 09:05 UTC
    The documentation of Net::Amazon::S3 reads for add_key thusly:
    add_key
    DEPRECATED. DO NOT USE

    So, you shouldn't use that.

    What are my options for serializing about 2G of files (jpgs / mp4s / docs) in a directory tree to replace 'T' in the following???

    I took two question signs off your question to stick them over my eyebrows. I just can't figure what you are asking for. Replace 'T'? easy: 

    $value =~ s/T/A/;

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    Why would you need 2G of data for that?

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