Arq sounds great, thanks for the pointer. Looks like a winner. Kinda interesting dropbox uses amazon too.
-- Owen On Wed, Jan 16, 2013 at 12:50 PM, Barry MacKichan < barry.mackic...@mackichan.com> wrote: > I'll put in my two cents. > > All the files I care about are on a Mac, so I use Arq, which backs up to > Amazon's S3 and Glacier services. There are two levels of S3 service which > vary in their redundancy. The higher level (S3 standard storage) claims: > Designed for 99.999999999% durability and 99.99% availability of objects > over a given year. > Designed to sustain the concurrent loss of data in two facilities. > > The price is now $.095 per gigabyte per month. I have watched it go down > from $.15 to $.095, but it may not be going down as fast as hard drive > prices. > > Amazon's Glacier storage is $.01 per gigabyte per month, but it has a time > delay on recovery (about 4 hours, enough time for the gerbils to mount a > tape). It can get expensive to move a lot of data in and out of Glacier, > but it is fine for long time storage. > > So now I have my home folder tree on Time Machine and Amazon S3. I have a > music and old data (carried forth from PC to PC since the late 80's) on > Glacier, so for most of my data (but not bought applications) I have copies > 1) on my Mac, 2) on my Time Machine, and 3) on S3 and Glacier offsite. > > The next problem is if (when) I have to reduce the amount of data on my > Mac (when going to SSD, possibly) I will need a place for the data moved > off my Mac and my Tiime Machine. I probably will go with a Drobo, which has > a good bit of redundancy and which would require only a Glacier backup > ($10.00 per terabyte per month) . > > I am putting some faith in Amazon, but their record is so far quite good, > and a disk in a safety deposit box, at least in my case, would be updated > rarely if at all. > > --Barry > > > > > On Jan 16, 2013, at 9:30 AM, Owen Densmore wrote: > > I figured out the google drive vs g+ plan. It turns out they are > integrated, a good thing I think. I was concerned it was yet another half > baked stunt but this seems pretty well managed. > > -- Owen > > torage plan pricing > > Learn about your options for purchasing more storage for Google Drive, > Google+ Photos, and Gmail. > > Store up to 5 GB between Google Drive and Google+ Photos, then pay for > additional storage as your account grows. Here's how it works: > > - Tap into your free storage as soon as you start using Google Drive > and G+ Photos. > - Purchase additional storage that can be shared across Google Drive > and G+ Photos. When you purchase additional storage, your Gmail storage > limit will automatically be increased to 25 GB. > > ============================================================ > FRIAM Applied Complexity Group listserv > Meets Fridays 9a-11:30 at cafe at St. John's College > to unsubscribe http://redfish.com/mailman/listinfo/friam_redfish.com > > > > ============================================================ > FRIAM Applied Complexity Group listserv > Meets Fridays 9a-11:30 at cafe at St. John's College > to unsubscribe http://redfish.com/mailman/listinfo/friam_redfish.com >
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