Hi everyone. I was considering backup options to Glacier Deep Archive, and wanted to know:

  1. Which software do you use to encrypt client-side, obfuscate, compress and deduplicate the data before you send it to S3?
  2. What is the difference between Restore Requests (bulk) and Outbound data transfer and which one will I be using when I want to pull my data from AWS?

I’ll be storing approximately 8TB or so of data, which is why I was looking at inexpensive ways to back it up other than buying an HDD outright.

Thanks!

  • MigratingtoLemmy@lemmy.worldOPEnglish
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    1 year ago

    The problem with AWS is that one need to bring all storage from glacier to regular S3 (which is quite expensive), and then their egress costs are massive. I read more about it and completely agree that AWS is not worth it at all when pulling data in.

    However, BackBlaze is quite expensive. I’d be paying $50 for my storage, which is simply not how much I’d like to pay. At this rate, I’d get a 10TB Ironwolf drive in an enclosure from Amazon for my cold storage.

    TBH, I was looking at other providers, and Dropbox looks much less expensive at $20 for 9TB. It’s a lot more than the 8TB I thought I’d be able to get away with for Glacier storage, but at least it’s not $50. I will take a look at scaleaway, but I simply trust the bigger players to be around and keep my files safe than the smaller companies.

    Edit: Scaleway seems less expensive than Dropbox with their glacier option. I really hope I can trust this company because this is an excellent price and I might even be willing to pay as much if it can be kept secure and safe. Now, I just need to read more about the value proposition of Dropbox vs Scaleway Glacier.