[AusNOG] Offsite Backup Recommendations

[Karl Auer]

On Mon, 2017-05-15 at 01:15 +0000, Shane Clay wrote:
> At 10tb your budget would have to be reasonable for both the storage
> and bandwidth requirements. Amazon S3 would slug you $350 for the
> object storage before you pay to get it there.

That's per year though, isn't it? 20% off if you put it into
"infrequent access", and 80% off if you move it into Glacier. That all
seems very cheap to me, considering that S3 automatically keeps several
non-co-located copies. The initial upload will be $500 over the
network, so go Snowball ($260) instead.

>  Recovery can be a bit more challenging too... you want someone who
> can ***quickly*** ship it out on a disk if you need to recover 10TB
> all of a sudden (unless your bandwidth is excellent).

Getting it there and getting it back are definitely the big issues.
Shifting the whole 10TB data back from S3 or Glacier will set you back
something like $750, though anyone actually needing such a transfer
will probably consider the price to be the least of their worries :-)
The time factor is usually more important.

Regards, K

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