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why do you want customers with lots of data and little money?
by kareemm 16y ago
why do you want customers with lots of data and little money?
- cperciva 16y agoI don't. Nobody does. My point was that the utility pricing model is no different from the freemium model here, in that both eliminate those customers.
- jacquesm 16y agoWell, for some values of 'little', in my case it worked out to about $10K / month iirc :)
- koenigdavidmj 16y agoIf you have 20-odd terabytes of data to back up, I am guessing that you probably can afford a tape drive and take your own backups.
- jacquesm 16y agoYes, I can afford the tape drive. No, that's not a solution for me. Check out what tarsnap does so you can compare tarsnap with a tapedrive.
- koenigdavidmj 16y agoI know what it does, and you are not going to be getting prices that you can afford from anything backing to S3. This (S3's storing everything so redundantly) is what I see as the main benefit that tarsnap would get you, since the encryption itself is the easy part---just GPG your dump before writing to tape. Now, I might be strawmanning you. What does tarsnap get you in particular that tapes do not?