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bigjonnyj:
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.

kureshii:
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.

bigjonnyj:
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.

kureshii:
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.

bigjonnyj:
So, remote box at a friends house and rsync is still the best way..for..ahem..stu ff.

Le Sigh.

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