On 22 May 2014 17:56, Bruce Wang <bruce@brucewang.net> wrote:
Hi Toby,
Have you check out http://www.tarsnap.com/?
It's built by one of the main contributor of FreeBSD, it uses AWS S3, really secure and has very reasonable price.
Unfortunately my data is not going to compress or deduplicate, and while under a terabyte currently, I'm using 1000GB as the benchmark amount. With tarsnap I'd be looking at $250/month, or $3000/year, excluding transfer fees. Glacier, for the same amount, would be $10/month, or $120/year, excluding transfer fees. It's hard to beat that price!
Or if you don't care about their service, you might want to have a look on their blog post http://www.daemonology.net/blog/2012-09-04-why-tarsnap-doesnt-use-glacier.ht...
For those who haven't read the article, it's perhaps best summarised by a comment from my original post, when I said that glacier works best with archives of files, rather than individual files. Thus you need a different approach than some backup systems take.