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And this highlights the fallacy that Amazon Glacier is a backup service. It's not - it's an archive service. Something that takes a few days to recover is not b

And this highlights the fallacy that Amazon Glacier is a backup service. It's not - it's an archive service. Something that takes a few days to recover is not backed up. I agree the other products are indeed backups as they provide immediate recovery.

cjensen 9y ago
Before we instituted the Glacier backup, we discussed whether or not a few days or weeks time would be "good enough" for our needs. We decided it was. So I totally agree that before picking a backup system, one needs to evaluate what the recovery is going to be like, and whether it will be good enough. For example, when recovering from the cloud, how long will it take to transfer all the data through your Internet connection? BackBlaze's overnight restore via FedEx could be a critical feature in your recovery speed.