Great. Now if someone would simply create a badass client for this for Mac (like Backblaze or Mozy) … we'd be in business. :)
Arq's support is enough. http://www.haystacksoftware.com/arq/
It already supports it?
Amazon Glacier
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#13Since this is built on top of S3, I'd love to be able to store EBS Snapshots in this.
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#14I had a quick skim through the marketing stuff and the FAQs and didn't see anywhere that actually details what the backend of this is. I'd be curious if they're actually using tape, older machines, Backblaze pods, etc. I guess if it's the latter, the time to recover could be an artificial barrier to prevent people from getting cute.
I think Amazon have their own "backblaze pods"...
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#15Wow, order of magnitude cheaper than S3 (1 cent per month vs. 12-14 cents for S3). Data transfer priced the same.
Drawback is "jobs typically complete in 3.5 to 4.5 hours."
Seeing as how people tend to be pack rats, I can see this being huge.
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#16I think one of the most interesting parts of this is how they plan to ensure that people do not use it for transient backup: https://aws.amazon.com/glacier/faqs/#How_am_I_charged_for_de...
Deleting data from Amazon Glacier is free if the archive being deleted has been stored for three months or longer. If an archive is deleted within three months of being uploaded, you will be charged an early deletion fee. In the US East (Northern Virginia) Region, you would be charged a prorated early deletion fee of $0.03 per gigabyte deleted within three months.
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#17It will be interesting to know if they will upgrade AWS Storage Gateway to use this kind of backend instead of S3
http://aws.amazon.com/storagegateway/
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#18This is fantastic. I've long searched for a solution like that. This is really suitable for a remote backup that only needs to be accessed if something really bad happens (i.e. a fire breaking out, etc). I'm a lone entrepreneur, so I do have backup hard disks here, but being able to additionally save this data in the cloud is great. I'm often creating pretty big media assets, so Dropbox doesn't necessarily offer enou…
Thinking exactly the same, Glacier would be a good place for a backup off family photos and videos.
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#19What does "99.999999999% durability" mean? Does it mean they allow themselves to lose one byte per terabyte on average?
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#20This is amazing! Just ~3 weeks ago I finally broke down and started using S3 to store my digital photos and other such crap.
Sure hope transferring 10 or 20 gigabytes of data from S3 to Glacier is easy.