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Indeed the pricing is difficult to estimate. I followed along with [1] in a spreadsheet to get a feel for it for my usage. In my case I am looking at making a
by warp 14y ago
Indeed the pricing is difficult to estimate. I followed along with [1] in a spreadsheet to get a feel for it for my usage.
In my case I am looking at making a full backup of a 1TB usb disk. Doing a full restore on a 20Mbit/s (= 9 GB/hour) would probably take about 5 days. In that case I'll be paying $65 in retrieval fees for the full restore. (I'm hoping that includes bandwidth costs, that isn't clear to me from the FAQ).
$65 for a full restore seems reasonable for something I expect to never need to do.
[1] http://aws.amazon.com/glacier/faqs/#How_will_I_be_charged_when_retrieving_large_amounts_of_data_from_Amazon_Glacier http://aws.amazon.com/glacier/faqs/#How_will_I_be_charged_wh...
- fusiongyro 14y agoYou got a problem right away in that Glacier only keeps your files on the staging disk for 24 hours. Unless you're planning on doing your disk in a set of separate archives, you're going to run into issues. And if you do separate archives you have to worry about the $0.05/thousand requests problem. You do still have to worry about bandwidth costs, $0.12 per GB, which adds another $120 to the cost of your restore: http://aws.amazon.com/glacier/pricing/ http://aws.amazon.com/glacier/pricing/ I can't speak for you but restores that cost $185 and take 5 days sound like a losing backup strategy for me.