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Maounique,
Tapes these days are generally large SATA/SAS disks. Think of it like eSATA on a server(in some cases it is).
Unfortunately if that is the case, the it is a single disk being shared and has the possibility of the data being lost, even under the most perfect of conditions =(.
@Maounique
Aha, thanks I will think of it, ATM I have the backup in another house in another town, might be worth it 50 cents a month or so for peace of mind. Or even free
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Nowhere it says on their site that they are using tapes though.
Also:
I think they are using HDDs. I think they're setup is that they power off the disk(probably the file server) after writing to save on energy costs. That might explain the charge for early deletion and the waiting period before getting your data.
anyone wants to write an app to simply upload files from bash?
It is tape as explained http://www.extremetech.com/computing/134776-amazon-glacier-99-999999999-durability-long-term-storage-for-a-penny-a-gig
Yep, and if you keep your data for less than a month, the price becomes 4 cents per gigabyte (1 cent for storage, 3 cents for deletion). Still cheaper than S3.
Where did you read that at? AFAIK both the storage and deletion fees are pro-rated.
That sounds awesome... lol.
" In the US East (Northern Virginia) Region, you would be charged a prorated early deletion fee of $0.03 per gigabyte deleted within three months. "
From: http://aws.amazon.com/glacier/faqs/#How_am_I_charged_for_deleting_data_that_is_less_than_3_months_old
It then goes down per month. Between 1 and 2 months, 2 cents. Between 2 and 3 months, 1 cent. After 3 months, I think it's free.
Pricing for storage ends up being ~$0.0003 per gigabyte per day (as defined in http://aws.amazon.com/glacier/faqs/#How_is_my_storage_charge_calculated ), so storing a 4 gigabyte archive for 7 days would end up being:
($0.0003 x 7) x 4) =$0.0084 (storage fee)
+
$0.03 (early deletion fee)
equals
$0.0384 total
Rounded up to 4 cents. Not bad, and still cheaper than S3 (even considering S3 RR), if you don't need S3's instant availability.
Maybe they do charge you a full cent per month, but going by the way they pro-rate everything else...
Either way, still much cheaper than S3 for long term storage.
I am thinking about doing this. You might contact me by PM for wishes/needs/requirements in your opinion. It will be my spare time project without a fixed deadline, but Glacier looks useful for me too
Thought about setting up a full array of backup systems and offering backup space at $10 - $15 /TB monthly with FTP, RSYNC and a web based file manager... It'd be something to the effect of 4 TB drives in raid1 x 12 sets per system. This would cost us roughly $8.50 per TB plus support per month if we assumed that the systems would only last 1 year before exploding...
Would definitely be interested in LEB version of this considering it'd be available at multiple locations for redundancy. We currently just use LEB backup servers.
https://groups.google.com/d/topic/cloudgates/Co9zWvCSqHU/discussion
Initial support for Glacier is now deployed.
Only uploads work at this point.