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We've just added support for Amazon Glacier to http://www.PlanForCloud.com so you quickly forecast your costs and compare it with other options.
Crashplan is still cheaper for storage larger than 400GB. Crashplan+ Unlimited is USD 2.92/month if you take the 4 year package. When I upload 300GB to Amazon and pay 0.01 * 300 = USD 3/month. Amazon would be even more expensive for larger amounts of data. Is there some fine print I'm missing with Crashplan unlimited?
Amazon Glacier is an extremely low-cost, pay-as-you-go storage service that can cost as little as $0.01 per gigabyte per month. What would be absolutely fascinating is a pay-before-you-go storage service — data cryonics. Paying $12 to store a gigabyte of data for 100 years seems like a pretty intriguing deal as we emerge from an era of bit rot.
"Paying $12 to store a gigabyte of data for 100 years" I'm not sure what kind of organisation I'd actually trust to store data for that length of time - a commercial organisation is probably going to be more effective at providing service but what commercial organisation would you trust to provide consistent service for 100 years? A Swiss bank perhaps? Governments of stable countries are obviously capable of this (cl…
I don't consider that obvious. I live in Berlin, the capital of what most would consider a stable country, but my apartment (which is even older) has been a part of 5 different countries in the last 100 years (German Empire, Weinmar Republic, Nazi Germany, East Germany and finally, the Federal Republic of Germany).
Crashplan is still cheaper for storage larger than 400GB. Crashplan+ Unlimited is USD 2.92/month if you take the 4 year package. When I upload 300GB to Amazon and pay 0.01 * 300 = USD 3/month. Amazon would be even more expensive for larger amounts of data. Is there some fine print I'm missing with Crashplan unlimited?
What's exciting about this, is that Amazon doesn't care _how_ much data you send them - presumably they've priced this so it's profitable at any level you wish to use. It's a sustainable model. Services like TarSnap/Arq will likely adopt this new service (Possibly offering tiered backup/archival services?).
I have (close to) zero doubt that Amazon's Glacier Archival Storage will be available 5 years from now at (probably less than) $0.01/Gigabyte/Month. They are a (reasonably) safe archival choice. Now that light users (With that said - I love Backblaze (Been a user since 2008) for working data backups, rapid-online (free) restores - and I will continue to use them, but I wouldn't plan on archiving a Terabyte of Data to them for the next 20 years.
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The dropbox client itself keeps the old versions of files around for a few days. It doesn't matter if the backend gets confused.
Yes, I'm aware of that. This helps, up to the point where you don't notice that something's gone for 'a few days'. Let's say you have your student project's folder shared with two other colleagues. You take a few days off, use your PC for casual browsing, meanwhile your colleagues are working on the project. At the end, one of them (who doesn't quite understand how dropbox works) deletes the files while the other is…
That said, we still keep multiple backups.
This 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…
The only issue I see is that verifying archive integrity (you don't want to find out the archive was bad after you lost the local backup...) would be somewhat complicated, given their retrieval policies. Also, the billing for data-transfer out plus peak retrievals sounds so convoluted, I can't begin to work out what a regular test-restore procedure would cost me. Nevertheless, it's some exciting progress in remote st…
The salt is used to prevent amazon from just keeping the hashes around to report that all is well.
To avoid abuse, restrict the number of free verification requests per month.
They should provide a "time capsule" option - pay X dollars, and after a set number of years, your data archive will be opened to the public for a given amount of time. There'd be no better way to ensure that information would eventually be made public.
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"Paying $12 to store a gigabyte of data for 100 years" I'm not sure what kind of organisation I'd actually trust to store data for that length of time - a commercial organisation is probably going to be more effective at providing service but what commercial organisation would you trust to provide consistent service for 100 years? A Swiss bank perhaps? Governments of stable countries are obviously capable of this (cl…
> Governments of stable countries are obviously capable of this I don't consider that obvious. I live in Berlin, the capital of what most would consider a stable country, but my apartment (which is even older) has been a part of 5 different countries in the last 100 years (German Empire, Weinmar Republic, Nazi Germany, East Germany and finally, the Federal Republic of Germany).
Of course, predicting future stability is complete guesswork!