I’m also thinking about “bouncing” an EC2 server:
* start the EC2 server
* rsync from my machine to EC2
* copy the data from EC2 to S3
* shut down the EC2
Ideally it would take less than one hour to do this so it would only cost me a couple of cents per day (or per week) to run the EC2 and I could use the rsync protocol more efficiently.

By the way, you may want to delete some of the spam comments

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Package fuse was not found in the pkg-config search path.
Perhaps you should add the directory containing `fuse.pc’
to the PKG_CONFIG_PATH environment variable
No package ‘fuse’ found
Package libcurl was not found in the pkg-config search path.
Perhaps you should add the directory containing `libcurl.pc’
to the PKG_CONFIG_PATH environment variable
No package ‘libcurl’ found
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The cure was:

apt-get install build-essential libcurl4-openssl-dev libxml2-dev libfuse-dev

Just to note that, in order to get s3sync to work, I had to make a small change to my s3config.rb to get it to check for the s3config.yml file in the local directory, as follows:-
FROM: confpath = ["#{ENV['S3CONF']}”, “#{ENV['HOME']}/.s3conf”, “/etc/s3conf”]
TO: confpath = ["./", "#{ENV['S3CONF']}”, “#{ENV['HOME']}/.s3conf”, “/etc/s3conf”]

Hope this helps someone!