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How do you like glacier? It seems it's fairly cheap until you want your data back. Any insights?

aidos 13y ago
Personally I've factored that in to my cost of recovery. It's going to cost me about £120 to restore my data over the course of a week. It depends on your use case but for me - in the event that glacier is the last point I can get my data from, £120 is a small price to pay to get it back. I used backblaze before and it was about the same to get them to post out a hdd (which was an awesome service on the one occasion I had to use it).
- toomuchtodo 13y ago
  It's too bad Amazon doesn't offer a discounted rate to restore from Glacier if you pay upfront.
  - zz1 13y ago
    Sorry to chase you between threads, but yes, I'd like to get in touch for the Getty files! Care to share contact info?
    - toomuchtodo 13y ago
      m8r-fhf8r1@mailinator.com (apologies, would prefer not to share my public email address here) I'll reply back from my personal email account.
- _red 13y ago
  In addition, Glacier should be thought of as "offline" storage , like a tape rotation scheme. When thought of that way, the cost for restoration is non-existent. Its not for "I may need this file next week" (thats what your local NAS / Time Machine is for...Glacier is for "what happens if this place burns down". At that point a week and £120 is not high on the list of your concerns...
aroch 13y ago
I like it quite a bit, Arq is my "backup of last resort" and what I use for provision new macs if they're not with me. I have daily/weekly/monthly local backups and semi-local, bi-weekly backups (stored offsite or in a building with a different mac). Setting up a new Mac remotely costs about $30 for the 60GB provisioning profile to be downloaded and restored (maybe more or less depending on the internet connection at the place). I pay a few hundred yearly for backups that I have no doubt will be there if I need them.

aidos 13y ago

Personally I've factored that in to my cost of recovery. It's going to cost me about £120 to restore my data over the course of a week. It depends on your use case but for me - in the event that glacier is the last point I can get my data from, £120 is a small price to pay to get it back. I used backblaze before and it was about the same to get them to post out a hdd (which was an awesome service on the one occasion I had to use it).

toomuchtodo 13y ago
It's too bad Amazon doesn't offer a discounted rate to restore from Glacier if you pay upfront.
- zz1 13y ago
  Sorry to chase you between threads, but yes, I'd like to get in touch for the Getty files! Care to share contact info?
  - toomuchtodo 13y ago
    m8r-fhf8r1@mailinator.com (apologies, would prefer not to share my public email address here) I'll reply back from my personal email account.
_red 13y ago
In addition, Glacier should be thought of as "offline" storage , like a tape rotation scheme. When thought of that way, the cost for restoration is non-existent. Its not for "I may need this file next week" (thats what your local NAS / Time Machine is for...Glacier is for "what happens if this place burns down". At that point a week and £120 is not high on the list of your concerns...

aroch 13y ago

I like it quite a bit, Arq is my "backup of last resort" and what I use for provision new macs if they're not with me. I have daily/weekly/monthly local backups and semi-local, bi-weekly backups (stored offsite or in a building with a different mac). Setting up a new Mac remotely costs about $30 for the 60GB provisioning profile to be downloaded and restored (maybe more or less depending on the internet connection at the place). I pay a few hundred yearly for backups that I have no doubt will be there if I need them.