<div dir="ltr"><div>Hi,<br>Please read the doc's regarding S3 and Glacier again.<br>The best way is to backup Linux under Amazon is to S3. This way you have immediate access to the recently backed up stuff.<br>Once the backups are in S3 you can tell Amazon to move it to Glacier based on the names of the files in S3 and<b> time constraints; </b>lets say after two weeks when it becomes less likely you will need it.<br>
Using the S3 Amazon console, you can also specify when to delete the backups from glacier automatically a very nice feature.<br>The cost in glacier is very low.<br>You only pay high fees for restoring from glacier to S3 (From where you can easily recover to Linux) if you break the rules. Read the rules below:<br>
<br> <a href="https://aws.amazon.com/glacier/pricing">https://aws.amazon.com/glacier/pricing</a><br>Quote "Glacier is designed with the expectation that retrievals are infrequent and unusual, and data will be stored for extended periods of time. You can retrieve up to 5% of your average monthly storage (pro-rated daily) for free each month. If you choose to retrieve more than this amount of data in a month, you are charged a retrieval fee starting at $0.01 per gigabyte. Learn more. In addition, there is a pro-rated charge of $0.03 per gigabyte for items deleted prior to 90 days."<br>
<br></div><div><br>There is an article by some one who has comprehension problems on the Internet saying it will cost a fortune to restore, and people seem to be quoting it a lot.<br>I have done restores and it is simply not so.<br>
I backup a few 100GB's this way every night. I have done restorations.<br><br>As to reliability: (This is effectively a contract):<br><a href="https://aws.amazon.com/glacier/#highlights">https://aws.amazon.com/glacier/#highlights</a><br>
Quote: "Amazon Glacier is designed to provide average annual durability of 99.999999999% " <br></div><div>If this is not good enough for you too bad.<br><br></div><div>( I do not work for Amazon)<br></div><div><br>
Thanks Ghiora<br><br></div></div><div class="gmail_extra"><br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Fri, May 17, 2013 at 12:04 AM, Nadav Har'El <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:nyh@math.technion.ac.il" target="_blank">nyh@math.technion.ac.il</a>></span> wrote:<br>
<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">On Thu, May 16, <a href="tel:2013" value="+9722013">2013</a>, Steve Litt wrote about "Re: Cloud Backup":<br>
<div class="im">> > If anyone was following this thread, I'll give you the latest news.<br>
> ><br>
> > <a href="http://rsync.net" target="_blank">rsync.net</a> just announced (see<br>
> > <a href="https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5638295" target="_blank">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5638295</a>) that during May, they<br>
> > sell 50 GB of quota for $60 a year. I switched to this deal, and it<br>
<br>
</div><div class="im">> What happens in June? I was looking at<br>
> <a href="http://www.rsync.net/resources/faq.html#13" target="_blank">http://www.rsync.net/resources/faq.html#13</a> , and that listed the price<br>
> before quantity discounts at $0.80/gigabyte_month, so with my 30 GB,<br>
> I'd be paying $24/month. I like the idea of using rsync or sftp to<br>
> upload and download my files, but $24/month is pretty steep.<br>
<br>
</div>They promised the 10 cent per gigabyte per month will stay forever, if you<br>
just *enroll* in May.<br>
<br>
Until this month, I've been paying them "just" 40 cents/gigabyte/month<br>
and thought I was getting a good deal (50% discount), because I'm a free<br>
software author :-)<br>
<div class="im"><br>
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