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Offline bigjonnyj

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Amazon Glacier
« on: August 21, 2012, 03:30:39 PM »
So, Amazon launched Glacier.  Other than storing piles of Picasa pictures on the super cheap, would it be a decent place to backup the collection of "completely legal stuff" I have on my NAS?  Or is using cloud storage just asking for it?

Thoughts?

Do other folks use JungleDisk, Carbonite or even AWS?

So, lame for a first post, but I <3 Baka anyway.
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Offline kureshii

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Re: Amazon Glacier
« Reply #1 on: August 21, 2012, 03:47:30 PM »
We’ll find out once backup services start supporting it. I gave S3 a quick go, but the existing tools (s3fs, s3cmd) for using it in scripted backup were disappointing. In particular, broken Unicode support in path/filenames.
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Offline bigjonnyj

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Re: Amazon Glacier
« Reply #2 on: August 21, 2012, 04:03:18 PM »
That was my experience with AWS.  That and being terrified of miscalculating how much data I really needed to move.  However, you didn't mention concerns about the content that you stored there.
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Re: Amazon Glacier
« Reply #3 on: August 21, 2012, 04:49:33 PM »
That's because I didn't store any seriously questionable content there, heh. Mostly my decently-sized audio rips, photos, backups of family laptops, etc.
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Offline bigjonnyj

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Re: Amazon Glacier
« Reply #4 on: August 21, 2012, 06:36:20 PM »
So, remote box at a friends house and rsync is still the best way..for..ahem..stu ff.

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