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Backup to Amazon Glacier
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
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http://thomassileo.com/blog/2012/10/24/getting-started-with-boto-and-glacier/
He did not even say what language is the code.
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
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.
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
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 $20, because Glacier had some data,
or it took a month or two to affect the billing.
Can't really beat 20$ / 1 TB VPS with network transfer rates of 10-20 MB/s.
Check out https://cloudgates.net/docs/glacier
Essentially creates an FTP gateway to Glacier