using amazon glacier for personal backup

It has some (at this time) unique features, like a write-once setup so files won't be overwritten by accident

glacier has reasonable tools on the aws site to calculate cost etc, however, even getting an index of your files takes 4 hours, which can be annoying.Update (because I don't think this is a full answer) after trying nearline and comparing to a friend trying glacier: Is there anything else to consider, anything I've missed? Hidden costs, things that would make using this difficult.

Some backup solutions like cloudberry seem to support only s3-with-glacier, making me wonder what is the reason behind that.

Docs on s3-with-glacier seem to suggest there will be some storage on s3 as well (to store the data about the file being in Glacier, if I understand correctly), it's not clear to me how much that will add to the cost.

Some sites seem to suggest getting a list of files in folders from glacier-without-s3 is difficult (or costly?).

Google Nearline seems to be only marginally more expensive though, and maybe somewhat simpler in use? I'd appreciate any experience on the difference between the 2 in practice.įor Glacier, I'm now wondering: should I look at using it directly or through S3? What are the consequences for both? This is backup, so I hope to not need to retrieve it, therefor (reasonable) costs and time for retrieval are not an issue.īecause Glacier seems to cost slightly less in storage (0.007$ vs 0.01$), I looked at that mostly so far. I'm aiming to store pictures and video, about 110G currently.

I would prefer manually uploading stuff (instead of an automated backup solution). I'm looking to use AWS Glacier for personal backup, or the similar 'Nearline storage' from Google.

Using amazon glacier for personal backup