Note that the $0.04 price is likely "cold storage" via glacier, which is cheap for write-only storage ($0.01/GB/month) but it's much more expensive than S3 for retrieval ($50/million requests to S3's $1) and there's ~4h round-trip to get data back according to Colin's old analysis of Glacier for Tarsnap: http://www.daemonology.net/blog/2012-09-04-why-tarsnap-doesn.... I'm guessing the data in cold-storage will not be interactible-with or visible in the interface.
Note that the second-to-last paragraph of Colin notes the possibility of tarnsap "glacializing" a complete machine dropping storage costs to 3~5c/GB/month, but it not be readable or deletable save by "deglazializing" the machine (15~20c/GB) to move the data to S3 for retrieval or deletion.
Yeah, the data I have is pretty much just old projects, photos, stuff like that that I archive for sentimental purposes, and that I never really need, but don't really want to delete either.
I'd be fine with something that's basically just "keep this data for me just in case all my other backup locations go down".
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Tarsnap too expensive?
Around 8 times more expensive than this, yeah.
Note that the $0.04 price is likely "cold storage" via glacier, which is cheap for write-only storage ($0.01/GB/month) but it's much more expensive than S3 for retrieval ($50/million requests to S3's $1) and there's ~4h round-trip to get data back according to Colin's old analysis of Glacier for Tarsnap: http://www.daemonology.net/blog/2012-09-04-why-tarsnap-doesn.... I'm guessing the data in cold-storage will not be interactible-with or visible in the interface.
Note that the second-to-last paragraph of Colin notes the possibility of tarnsap "glacializing" a complete machine dropping storage costs to 3~5c/GB/month, but it not be readable or deletable save by "deglazializing" the machine (15~20c/GB) to move the data to S3 for retrieval or deletion.
Yeah, the data I have is pretty much just old projects, photos, stuff like that that I archive for sentimental purposes, and that I never really need, but don't really want to delete either.
I'd be fine with something that's basically just "keep this data for me just in case all my other backup locations go down".