How to see progress of ReadyNAS OS 6: Sync with Amazon S3

I'm still not sure that the built in S3 is worth using.

To me it makes no sense for it to sync rather than backup. By design S3 saves versions of everything. You can then provide life cycle parameters around what is retained/ offloaded to various tiers of storage etc (within the S3 web interface). It's very good.

But for example - if I have a Photoshop document that is 1GB in size, and I open the file and I toggle a layer off > hit save, then toggle it on again>hit save. Then on S3 I end up with 3x files (versions) at 1GB ea. If I save it ten times in a day I end up with 10GB of data.

So it uploads a new version each time you hit save, and you have to pay for a huge amount of duplication. Telling S3 to delete heaps of versions seems a backwards way to manage it.

I use bulk rename utility and I can only imagine the vast amount of wasted data uploads that this would create.

The app just needs another option that allows you to specify how often it will upload from the NAS. Oddly it has the option for downloads (syncs to the NAS from S3). If I can set it to run daily then I'd just get one version per day for any files that I've saved. Then on S3 I would have been able to simply tell it to delete any previous versions after 90days (whilst also sending the current version to Glacier, or Deep Glacier).