I was looking for a AWS S3 solution for backing up a Linux file system so that it would preserve the timestamp and permissions. It appears that s3cmd
allows this by writing this information to the metadata for the object (file) on AWS S3 in the metadata.
Where is the metadata stored exactly? Is it part of the content of the file? Is there any chance it would corrupt the file? I'm trying to determine if using s3cmd
to accomplish this is a safe option.