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Anyone using AWS Glacier for backup?
Now that CrashPlan is discontuning their home service, I am looking for an alternative cloud backup service. AWS Glacier looks perfect, anyone using it?
Right, but my question is, is anyone using it? Or I guess I really want to know how one would use it exactly. Would you just use it through the AWS S3 integration? Or something else?
OK, so I think the S3 cloud integration is just for the standard S3 bucket storage. I don't see a way to specify a glacier vault. tragic.
I am also looking for a new backup solution. I have about a year before Crashplan will kick me off for good, so I have some time to figure it out. In my case I'm only currently backing up about 1TB, with crashplan it was costing me $60/year. The size might go up a bit over time. Crashplan also does versioning, so actually more than 1TB of storage is being used, though I'm not sure how much that is. But around 1TB is being backed up.
The new crashplan small business is double the price.
Versioning has been handy a few times I was glad I had it, so...I would like to find an alternative service that also does that. Most all of the Mac/PC backup services do. But few of them provide linux support.
I think at some point I was trying out linux version of idrive and for some reason I came to the conclusion that crashplan was better, but I don't remember what it was now. Their pricing is not bad, $52/year for 2TB and they have a 5TB plan for $75/year (which can also be shared across multiple computers, so perhaps I can backup a few of my other computers also under the one plan...that is not bad value, I will look into that and probably test it out.
Anyone know any other linux-compatible turnkey solutions to use instead of crashplan?
- unlimited data is probably not a requirement, but affordable storage is.
- Versioning
- Ideally a gui to choose files to backup or recover
- Runs ok on readynas, including headless GUI perhaps
- decent bandwidth
Oh another thing I was doing with crashplan that I can't do with iDrive, I was using crashplan to make a local backup from one machine to another, in addition to backing up to their servers. Crashplan small business doesn't even support that anymore. Maybe I can live without it, not sure...but..it was nice before I ended up using that to backup a lof of stuff that I didn't want to backup over WAN to crashplan...so less mission critical stuff that would suck to lose but not the end of the world. So local backup only. The crashplan software basically worked to do that, with a GUI and worked fine. I tried numerous other open source solutions and none worked as well at crashplan.
Looks like iDrive is running a special right now, if we are coming over from Crashplan its only $7 for the first year for 2TB of data.
I see they also sell standalone drives which a server built in that can be used for local backups up to 2TB. Replace time machine maybe?
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