[TriLUG] AWS storage and upload thingies

[Ken Mink via TriLUG]

+1 CrashPlan

I've been using them for a couple years and have been really pleased.


On 05/25/2017 07:21 PM, Keith Woodie via TriLUG wrote:
> CrashPlan is cheap and offers fairly good speeds from what I have
> experienced.  I have throttled the upload so I am not sure what the upper
> limit is.  2.5Mbps upload is what I allow right now.
>
> Thanks.
>
> On Mon, May 22, 2017, 11:06 AM Reginald Reed via TriLUG <trilug at trilug.org>
> wrote:
>
>> Since we're talking cloud storage/backup/etc., has anyone found a service
>> that will allow anything that will allow those with fast connections to
>> upload without throttling/hundreds of megabits per second that DOESN'T cost
>> an arm and a leg?
>>
>> On Mon, May 22, 2017 at 10:11 AM, Matt Pusateri via TriLUG <
>> trilug at trilug.org> wrote:
>>
>>> Https://www.tarsnap.com is another one to look at.  Might be more
>>> expensive, but encrypted by design with DeDupe.
>>>
>>> Matt P.
>>>
>>> Sent from my iPhone
>>>
>>>> On May 22, 2017, at 10:06 AM, Mauricio Tavares via TriLUG <
>>> trilug at trilug.org> wrote:
>>>> On Mon, May 22, 2017 at 9:37 AM, Igor Partola via TriLUG
>>>> <trilug at trilug.org> wrote:
>>>>> I would caution against using Glacier. The pricing for it is some of
>>> the most complicated in AWS, and you can get bitten by it badly. It is
>> for
>>> real disaster recovery and where recovery time doesn't matter. Basically
>>> you can only retrieve something like 10% of your data per month without
>> it
>>> becoming hugely expensive. It is effectively write only storage where you
>>> can say that the data is safe, but can't really get at it quickly or
>> easily.
>>>>       What is my plan is to put a 5TB encrypted (don't trust Amazon)
>>>> file there I should never need to get back, and until I am told we can
>>>> get rid of them. And if we need back, we can wait a week for it to get
>>>> back. Otherwise, we will never touch it or download a bit every month,
>>>> for it is a single file; it is all or nothing.
>>>>
>>>> I looked at https://aws.amazon.com/glacier/pricing/ and I guess that
>>>> uner "Data Transfer OUT From Amazon Glacier To Internet" that would
>>>> fall under the "$0.090 per GB"
>>>>
>>>>> S3 is more expensive, but still cheap. If price here makes a
>> difference
>>> to you, I would look at Google Cloud's file storage, as well as
>> Backblaze's
>>> B2 thing. Both are cheaper than S3.
>>>>       I will check into that!
>>>>
>>>>> If you are talking about a relatively small amount of data (1-3TB),
>>> Amazon also offers a thing called Cloud Drive which is a flat $60 for
>>> unlimited storage. Obviously it is limited by some fair use clause but as
>>> long as you are not a crazy outlier, you'll be ok. It has a Linux client
>> I
>>> believe.
>>>>       For my use case I do not think it makes sense but it would be
>>>> nicer if we need to access the file more often than I plan on (never +
>>>> 1 day).
>>>>
>>>>> Igor
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