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Anyone using it?

Looks like a very well priced option for a last-line backup solution. I understand it can work out expensive if you need to pull all the data out very quickly in a DR scenario, but I'm very tempted to sign up to archive all my raws.

One archive per year, then start uploading a new archive each month.

$0.01 USD per GB per month. No charge for uploads. The download pricing is complicated though, and you need some 3rd party software to be able to interface with it (it's not an end user product).

http://aws.amazon.com/glacier/pricing/
 
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I know there's been a few discussions about cloud backup (I've started one in the past), but was interested in anyone's experiences of using Glacier specifically, as it is completely different proposition from the DropBox/Skydrives etc.
 
520Gb costs me $7 a month, not sure on how it was worked out, but I am happy as I trust the EC2 platform, other services are companies I don't know, may only have 1 server or are just resellers.


Everything is up there for me, films, music, photos etc.

You have one account and can use it with as many PCs as you want.

The only downside is backup clients, I used cloudberry on my media server which is good. Needs a few improvements for use on my laptop when I am out and about.
 
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Having looked at the other solutions, I have settled on BackupSolutions. They appear to be the home user/SME of Iron Mountain. Price $100/year for unlimited backup for one machine (which is OK for me as I have a mirror of my backups on my main workstation). Why them? They were the only site I could saturate my up-bandwidth with - I get the full 2Mbytes/sec up which I couldn't get with the other providers. For downloading, best I've achieved is 35Mbits/sec in the very limited trials I did, but since the idea isn't to be pulling data.... This month (so far) I have moved 100GBytes down and 700GBytes up. Full backups and drive images of almost all the machines we have here, as well as all my CDs backed up.

I know it doesn't answer your original question (I didn't try Glacier as I wanted a predictable cost) and your use will be different if you don't have a fast uplink, but I now have almost everything backed up in 3 (!) places locally AND on the net. Very happy with their product though and would recommend them to anyone wanting full UK based backups...
 
Aha... Just realised you are in HK.... UK based servers aren't going to be much use to you ;)
 
I use crash plan, unlimited real time backup $3 a month - not Amazon glacier but a good solution.
 
HK based server would be an advantage as the international links here get pretty busy at peak times. Not deal breaker though. Will take a look at cloudberry.

Don't need particularly fast access anyway, I just want a last resort backup. I've got 2 local backups, just want one off-site I don't need to worry about.
 
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