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Installing Net::Amazon::S3 in Debian?  This might help.  I'm documenting it here because I have had to do this so many times in the past few weeks.  It's not hard, but it's definitely annoying to have to find all the modules that Net::Amazon::S3 depends on.

apt-get install libxml-libxml-perl libmoose-perl libmoosex-strictconstructor-perl libregexp-common-perl libclass-mop-perl libdatetime-format-iso8601-perl libdigest-md5-file-perl libnamespace-clean-perl libtest-use-ok-perl libtime-duration-parse-perl libdatetime-format-natural-perl libdatetime-set-perl libdatetime-perl libexception-class-perl libtest-warn-perl libtest-differences-perl libtest-deep-perl libmodule-build-perl liblwp-useragent-determined-perl

cpan Data::Stream::Bulk

cpan DateTimeX::Easy

cpan MooseX::Types::DateTimeX

cpan DateTime::Format::HTTP

cpan Net::Amazon::S3


And then if you get tired of any of the warnings when you "use" it, try this at the top of your code:

open(my $olderr, '>&', \*STDERR);
close(STDERR);
eval('use Net::Amazon::S3');
open(STDERR, '>&', $olderr);



We use Amazon S3 for data backup for all of our servers.  Each individual server gets its own bucket in S3.  Actually, it gets two (-backups and -chunks).  Apparently there is a limit to the number of buckets you're allowed to have in S3.

So now the last server I added can't be backed up.  Greaaat.

I'm in the process of merging a few junk server backups into a single pair of buckets to see how it works.  If it works well, I'm just going to merge *all* of the servers into a single pair of buckets.  I don't like it, but I'm not sure I have much of a choice.  I don't want to stop using S3 for backup (super cheap, easy, and reliable).