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Show HN: Easily move between cloud storage (S3, Backblaze, OneDrive, etc.)

30 points by PearTechFiend 7y ago

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trevyn 7y ago
Way too expensive.
- booi 7y ago
  yeah way too expensive.. unless they're saying you don't have to pay normal egress costs?
  - Movebot 7y ago
    We need some early adopters to work with us and test us out since rebranding. Happy to discuss a large discount or other options based on how much data you have. If you do need to migrate and are willing to work with us please contact us on support@movebot.io - disclaimer I work at the company
nickcw 7y ago
If you prefer open source tools you can run yourself then rclone will do exactly this. https://rclone.org https://rclone.org (rclone author)
- red0point 7y ago
  I bet they‘re using exactly your tool internally ;)
  - Movebot 7y ago
    As awesome as Rclone is, and we agree it serves a purpose. We can assure you that MoveBot is built on its own and does not use Rclone in anyway.
  - artpar 7y ago
    If you are looking for a server around rclone, then checkout https://github.com/daptin/daptin https://github.com/daptin/daptin which is primarily a headless cms but using rclone for asset storage purpose(think blob columns). You can also expose rclone synced cloud storage folders over FTP/HTTP. For instance https://docs.dapt.in/ https://docs.dapt.in/ is a rclone synced gdrive folder exposed running on daptin :) (daptin author)
filleokus 7y ago
Hmm. So let's say I have some (3) TB of data in S3 and I need to migrate it to GCP. Before this service I would have had to spin up a machine on AWS/GCP (or piggyback on some other machine already running there) and used rclone or something to do the transfer. The costs then would have been: - Egress (per TB) - Machine cost (per hour) - Work setting it up With this service my costs are now: - Egress (per TB) - Movebot (per job + per TB (+ per month)) So basically I'm trading the machine-cost and hassle for the per TB cost for Movebot. If this is a one-off/not regular thing for me, I'll probably go with the standard Movebot plan. That would cost me 255 USD (15 + 3000 * 0.08). I don't know what sustained speed I would get between AWS and GCP (which ofc depends on regions etc), but let's say 250 Mbit/s. Something like a m5.large is ≈ 0.1 USD per hour. 3000 GB / 250 Mbit/s * 0.1 USD per hour = 2.67 USD. Is the convenience worth me ≈ 250 USD (or a ≈ 100x "markup")? Probably not. Perhaps there are users that do this regularly and need to have a more automated way that doesn't involve spinning up machines manually etc. I don't know.
- filleokus 7y ago
  Skip the middle plan, and have two plans: - Standard: $5 per job + $0.02 per GB - "Enterprise": 99$ per month + $0 per job + $0.005 per GB
- toyg 7y ago
  $250 is peanuts in the great scheme of things for even small businesses. If it saves me half a day of fiddling with rclone/rsync, the chance of getting things wrong or losing data, and the burden of remembering next month how my half-assed solution is supposed to work... then it has already paid for itself. My issue with it is that I don’t see any support for Glacier, which IMHO would be a natural target. Sticking to everyday cloud drives only limits its usefulness in the long run - ok, I’ll do the migration now and then in a year I won’t even remember that Movebot exists. I’d like a way of backing up my cloud drives to glacier periodically.
  - filleokus 7y ago
    I don't think it would take half a day of fiddling, but yeah I see your point. Especially considering transit cost for 3TB would be in the ballpark of $250 as well. However, it would $250 the next month as well. Backing up is an interesting proposition. Especially if you could schedule Movebot to do it for you.
Proven 7y ago
Per GB pricing, eh?

30 points by PearTechFiend 7y ago

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trevyn 7y ago

Way too expensive.

booi 7y ago
yeah way too expensive.. unless they're saying you don't have to pay normal egress costs?
- Movebot 7y ago
  We need some early adopters to work with us and test us out since rebranding. Happy to discuss a large discount or other options based on how much data you have. If you do need to migrate and are willing to work with us please contact us on support@movebot.io - disclaimer I work at the company

nickcw 7y ago

If you prefer open source tools you can run yourself then rclone will do exactly this. https://rclone.org https://rclone.org (rclone author)

red0point 7y ago
I bet they‘re using exactly your tool internally ;)
- Movebot 7y ago
  As awesome as Rclone is, and we agree it serves a purpose. We can assure you that MoveBot is built on its own and does not use Rclone in anyway.
- artpar 7y ago
  If you are looking for a server around rclone, then checkout https://github.com/daptin/daptin https://github.com/daptin/daptin which is primarily a headless cms but using rclone for asset storage purpose(think blob columns). You can also expose rclone synced cloud storage folders over FTP/HTTP. For instance https://docs.dapt.in/ https://docs.dapt.in/ is a rclone synced gdrive folder exposed running on daptin :) (daptin author)

filleokus 7y ago

Hmm. So let's say I have some (3) TB of data in S3 and I need to migrate it to GCP. Before this service I would have had to spin up a machine on AWS/GCP (or piggyback on some other machine already running there) and used rclone or something to do the transfer. The costs then would have been: - Egress (per TB) - Machine cost (per hour) - Work setting it up With this service my costs are now: - Egress (per TB) - Movebot (per job + per TB (+ per month)) So basically I'm trading the machine-cost and hassle for the per TB cost for Movebot. If this is a one-off/not regular thing for me, I'll probably go with the standard Movebot plan. That would cost me 255 USD (15 + 3000 * 0.08). I don't know what sustained speed I would get between AWS and GCP (which ofc depends on regions etc), but let's say 250 Mbit/s. Something like a m5.large is ≈ 0.1 USD per hour. 3000 GB / 250 Mbit/s * 0.1 USD per hour = 2.67 USD. Is the convenience worth me ≈ 250 USD (or a ≈ 100x "markup")? Probably not. Perhaps there are users that do this regularly and need to have a more automated way that doesn't involve spinning up machines manually etc. I don't know.

filleokus 7y ago
Skip the middle plan, and have two plans: - Standard: $5 per job + $0.02 per GB - "Enterprise": 99$ per month + $0 per job + $0.005 per GB
toyg 7y ago
$250 is peanuts in the great scheme of things for even small businesses. If it saves me half a day of fiddling with rclone/rsync, the chance of getting things wrong or losing data, and the burden of remembering next month how my half-assed solution is supposed to work... then it has already paid for itself. My issue with it is that I don’t see any support for Glacier, which IMHO would be a natural target. Sticking to everyday cloud drives only limits its usefulness in the long run - ok, I’ll do the migration now and then in a year I won’t even remember that Movebot exists. I’d like a way of backing up my cloud drives to glacier periodically.
- filleokus 7y ago
  I don't think it would take half a day of fiddling, but yeah I see your point. Especially considering transit cost for 3TB would be in the ballpark of $250 as well. However, it would $250 the next month as well. Backing up is an interesting proposition. Especially if you could schedule Movebot to do it for you.

Proven 7y ago

Per GB pricing, eh?