Hi everyone. I was considering backup options to Glacier Deep Archive, and wanted to know:

  1. Which software do you use to encrypt client-side, obfuscate, compress and deduplicate the data before you send it to S3?
  2. What is the difference between Restore Requests (bulk) and Outbound data transfer and which one will I be using when I want to pull my data from AWS?

I’ll be storing approximately 8TB or so of data, which is why I was looking at inexpensive ways to back it up other than buying an HDD outright.

Thanks!

  • @[email protected]OPEnglish
    1•1 year ago

    Here’s my situation; I anticipate about 8TB that I will need to store reliably.

    That’s $50 with BackBlaze B2 a month.

    I can get 2 12TB drives for $500 total, and keep one/both of them in remote locations (may or may not be connected to the internet, so I suppose the convenience just isn’t there like the Cloud).

    The supposed value of the cloud is becoming a bit difficult for me to justify TBH. No wonder B2 is reliable, but if I have 2 drives acting as cold storage in different locations (I will be encrypting the contents), is that a better idea than Cloud storage/BackBlaze specifically? I have been assured that the remote locations should be fine for the most part, other than for natural calamities.

    • @[email protected]English
      2•1 year ago

      Honestly what really matters (imo) is that you do offsite storage. Cloud, a friends house, your parents, your buddy’s NAS, whatever. Just get your data away from your “production/main” site.

      For me, I chose cloud for two main reason. First, convenience. I could use a tool to automate the process of moving data offsite in a reliable manner thus keeping my offsite backups almost identical to my main array and easy retrieval should I need it. Second, I don’t really have family or friends nearby and/or with the hardware to support my need for offsite storage.

      There are lots of pros and cons of each, let alone add your specific needs and circumstances on top of it.

      If you can use the additional drives later on in your main array, some other server or a different purpose then it may be worth while exploring the drives (my concern would be ease of keeping offsite data up to par with main data). If you don’t like it for one reason or the other, you can always repurpose the drives and give cloud storage a try. Again, the important thing is to do it in the first place (and encrypt it client side).

      • @[email protected]OPEnglish
        1•1 year ago

        There are 3 main reasons (in my particular scenario) that might prompt me to go for the cloud:

        1. Reliability of infrastructure.
        2. Convenience.
        3. (Supposed) Bitrot protection (I won’t have the protection, just the detection, since I’ll be using standalone drives with ZFS).

        I need to think a bit more. Thanks!