FWIW, the Arq program encrypts using a password you enter. They claim Amazon never sees the encryption keys. I have no knowledge of the strength of the encryption, other than the key length can be quite long if not unbounded.
--Barry On Nov 21, 2012, at 9:55 AM, Parks, Raymond wrote: > Remember, when you say cloud in various contexts you need to make the mental > if not vocal substitution - > > "Cloud" = "Somebody else's computer" > > "Cloud Storage" = "Somebody else's hard drive" > > "Cloud Privacy" = "Share your data with anyone who can convince the hard > drive owner to give it to them - starting with government" > > "Cloud Security" = "Vulnerable to the latest VM break-out and VM break-in > exploits" > > Ray Parks > Consilient Heuristician/IDART Program Manager > V: 505-844-4024 M: 505-238-9359 P: 505-951-6084 > NIPR: [email protected] > SIPR: [email protected] (send NIPR reminder) > JWICS: [email protected] (send NIPR reminder) > > > > On Nov 21, 2012, at 9:24 AM, Barry MacKichan wrote: > >> 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. 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