I am using Arq ($29, I believe), which is a Mac-only backup program which uses S3 for storing your backups. Beginning about a week ago, it now supports Glacier. You choose normal S3 or Glacier on a folder-by-folder basis.
It's taken a few days to back up 195 GB, but I have been quite happy with it. -- Barry On Nov 14, 2012, at 8:59 AM, Owen Densmore wrote: > Amazon just keeps on getting better! One of these days I'll have to revisit > my usage of them .. which is currently mainly cheap S3 storage. > > Dropbox is built on top of AWS and could easily offer Glacier to its users: > Near your limit? Archive some stuff and we'll give you that space back. Need > the archived data? We'll give you access (somehow). > > Is there a hosting service built on top of AWS? .. i.e. $20 or less access to > the usual LAMP stack? > > -- Owen > > > > ---------- Forwarded message ---------- > From: Amazon Web Services <[email protected]> > Date: Wed, Nov 14, 2012 at 2:31 AM > Subject: Amazon S3 Now Supports Archiving Data to Amazon Glacier > To: "[email protected]" <[email protected]> > > > Dear Amazon Web Services Customer, > > We are pleased to introduce a new storage option for Amazon S3 that enables > you to utilize Amazon Glacier’s extremely low-cost storage service for data > archival. Amazon Glacier stores data for as little as $0.01 per gigabyte per > month, and is optimized for data that is infrequently accessed and for which > retrieval times of several hours are suitable. With the new Amazon Glacier > storage option for Amazon S3, you can define rules to automatically archive > sets of Amazon S3 objects to Amazon Glacier for even lower cost storage. > > To store Amazon S3 objects using the Amazon Glacier storage option, you > define archival rules for a set of objects in your Amazon S3 bucket, > specifying a prefix and a time period. The prefix (e.g. “logs/”) identifies > the object(s) subject to the rule, and the time period specifies either the > number of days from object creation date (e.g. 180 days) or the specified > date after which the object(s) should be archived (e.g. June 1st 2013). > Going forward, any Amazon S3 standard or Reduced Redundancy Storage objects > past the specified time period and having names beginning with the specified > prefix are then archived to Amazon Glacier. To restore Amazon S3 data stored > using the Amazon Glacier option, you first initiate a restore job using the > Amazon S3 API or the Amazon S3 Management Console. Restore jobs typically > complete in 3 to 5 hours. Once the job is complete, you can access your data > through an Amazon S3 GET request. > > You can easily configure rules to archive your Amazon S3 objects to the new > Amazon Glacier storage option by opening the Amazon S3 Management Console[1] > and following these simple steps: > > 1) Select the Amazon S3 bucket containing the objects that you wish to > archive to Amazon Glacier. > 2) Click on “Properties. Under the “Lifecycle” tab, click “Add rule.” > 3) Enter an object prefix in the “Object prefix:” input box. This rule > is now applicable to all objects with names that start with the specified > prefix. > 4) Choose whether you want to archive your objects based on the age of a > given object or based on a specified date. Click the “Add Transition” button > and specify the age or date value. Click the “Save” button. > > The Amazon Glacier storage option for Amazon S3 is currently available in the > US-Standard, US-West (N. California), US-West (Oregon), EU-West (Ireland), > and Asia Pacific (Japan) Regions. You can learn more by visiting the Amazon > S3 Developer Guide[2] or joining our Dec 12 webinar[3]. > > Sincerely, > The Amazon S3 Team > > [1] https://console.aws.amazon.com/s3/home > [2] http://docs.amazonwebservices.com/AmazonS3/latest/dev/Welcome.html > [3] https://www2.gotomeeting.com/register/793180906 > > We hope you enjoyed receiving this message. If you wish to remove yourself > from receiving future product announcements and the monthly AWS Newsletter, > please update your communication preferences at > https://aws-portal.amazon.com/gp/aws/developer/account/index.html/104-4543842-2170300?ie=UTF8&action=edit-communication-preferences > > Amazon Web Services, Inc. is a subsidiary of Amazon.com, Inc. Amazon.com is a > registered trademark of Amazon.com, Inc. This message produced and > distributed by Amazon Web Services, Inc., 410 Terry Ave. North, Seattle, WA > 98109-5210. > > ============================================================ > FRIAM Applied Complexity Group listserv > Meets Fridays 9a-11:30 at cafe at St. John's College > lectures, archives, unsubscribe, maps at http://www.friam.org
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