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The problem with using glacier for backups is it's hard to run restore exercises, and without restore exercises, a backup is pretty dangerous
by cortesoft 17d ago
The problem with using glacier for backups is it's hard to run restore exercises, and without restore exercises, a backup is pretty dangerous
- snizovtsev 17d agoYou can exercise it against regular, non-Glacier S3. Same flow; the only difference is that you skip one attribute on upload and one request/wait step on download.
- pmw 17d agoThe most polished Glacier backup/restore mechanism I know -- because I helped build it -- is through rustic <https://rustic.cli.rs/docs/commands/init/cold_storage.html https://rustic.cli.rs/docs/commands/init/cold_storage.html>. It has native support for backing up to Glacier (because writing to Glacier is identical to writing to regular S3), and it supports external "warmup" programs to support cold storage of your choice, with Glacier having an existing warmup program you can use.