Hey guys, We have been using/testing s3ql for around a year now. And our s3 bill is usually around the same each month. We backup 4 servers that total about 200GB using CDP/R1soft. I think we keep 7 days of delta's.
As you may know. S3 inbound is actually free, it's only outbound that you get charged. Here is a look at my bill. https://i.imgur.com/nyMaJc9.png Typically, if your saving files to s3, its free. And the first 1gb data transfer out is also free. At first thought, you might assume that backing up, would only require inbound. Now, I can only speculate that the costs that we are incurring, is the backup software pulling deltas/blocks from s3, so that it can merge them with the original backup file. Maybe it has to do this in memory? Why else would we be charged for OUTBOUND file charges/perGB. Now that I have fully speculated, can someone tell me exactly, what function of s3ql/CDP is causing outbound data transfer? What recommendations if any, do you have to limit the costs? Thanks, Sysadmin -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "s3ql" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
