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Right. The files are named using the SHA1 hash of their contents (to enable de-duplication) and small files are packed together (to dramatically improve performance). I thought that was the best solution given the limits of the S3 API. JungleDisk does something similar I think.

What sort of alternative for restoring would you be interested in? Maybe an open-source command-line utility?

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A command-line utility is always a big plus for those who like scripting. Maybe a FUSE script/app/plugin?

Check out Quillen for snapshot backups directly to S3. Simple command-line interface, easy for scripting. Also open source. http://quillen.googlecode.com/

I posted an open-source command-line utility on github for restoring (downloading) Arq backups from your S3 account:

http://sreitshamer.github.com/arq_restore/

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