Backup to Amazon Glacier

dnwk

Is there any easy solution to upload my backup file to Amazon Glacier? I did not see much automatic solutions.

Edit: I mean backup my server to Glacier. I think there are some solutions on your home computers. But I need to backup my VMs. a Whole snapshot file. from debian

awson

http://thomassileo.com/blog/2012/10/24/getting-started-with-boto-and-glacier/

dnwk

@awson said:
http://thomassileo.com/blog/2012/10/24/getting-started-with-boto-and-glacier/

He did not even say what language is the code.

Awmusic12635

Thanks to boto, a Python interface to Amazon

hyao

You can duplicity to back up to S3, then change the bucket properties and tranfer to glacier. Here's an article using duplicity:
http://icelab.com.au/articles/easy-server-backups-to-amazon-s3-with-duplicity/

Or you could use awscli developed by aws to do the job:
https://github.com/aws/aws-cli

finlandvps

I used duplicity and S3, about 500 GB of data kept for a month. It was pretty expensive about 50$/month.
For 20$ you can buy a kimsufi or a backupsy. Amazon S3 is too expensive and too slow for my needs.

hyao

Using aws glacier would lower the storage cost to 1/10th compared to S3: $5/month for 500G.

That would be cheaper than current storage VPS offerings; but data archiving/retrieval would be a couple of hours slower. And it's good for archiving data mostly, you can restore 5% of your glacier storage for free. Beyond that, you'd be charged $0.01/GB for data transfer.

https://aws.amazon.com/s3/#pricing

finlandvps

I had s3 to glacier rule for older than 1 month data.
Anyhow, it was too expensive IMO, and too slow, and ended up costing $50/month total.
Even after removing s3 storage it was $20, because Glacier had some data,
or it took a month or two to affect the billing.

finlandvps

Can't really beat 20$ / 1 TB VPS with network transfer rates of 10-20 MB/s.

Chenevert

Check out https://cloudgates.net/docs/glacier

Essentially creates an FTP gateway to Glacier