Topic: Using Amazon AWS Glacier for additional backup

[holck]

I do a daily backup on a USB-disk, that works very well. It reduces the risk of data loss if files are deleted by mistake or if the server crashes (I use RAID 5). But data will still be lost if my apartments gets flooded or is burnt down.  So I'm considering using Amazon AWS Glacier to make a weekly backup-backup to a remote place.

I've found two interface scripts to help communicate with Glacier:
https://github.com/uskudnik/amazon-glacier-cmd-interface
https://github.com/vsespb/mt-aws-glacier

Do any of you have experiences with this? Right now I'm testing a simple backup-backup script with the Glacier-cmd-interface. It uploads by backup files with approx 2 MB / sec, so it will take quite some time to backup my 700 GB. This will be in conflict with the automatic backup which requires that the USB backup disk is not mounted when backup begins.

With a little effort it can be built into an automatic script. The backup files should probably be encrypted before uploading, I need to find a good solution for that.

Kind regards,
Jesper, Denmark

[janet]

holck

Have you checked out retrieval costs & download data limits ?
One online review suggests you can only retrieve 20.5 Gb per day.
It will take a long time to retrieve your 700Gb.
In a worst case scenario, how long are you prepared to wait before your server is up & running again.

I think it would be simpler to have a second or third USB drive & swap them offsite daily (or as frequently as you prefer).