Re: Glacier Storage

2015-02-23 Thread John Gamble
Hi Colin, Understood. And for this, the best solution is probably to use something other than Tarsnap. Given that you're going to upload them once and never touch them again (hopefully) there are lots of tools which will do the job for you -- removing the need for deduplication makes

Re: Glacier Storage

2015-02-23 Thread Colin Percival
On 02/23/15 05:28, John Gamble wrote: Understood. And for this, the best solution is probably to use something other than Tarsnap. Given that you're going to upload them once and never touch them again (hopefully) there are lots of tools which will do the job for you -- removing the need for

Re: Glacier Storage

2015-02-22 Thread Marcin Cieslak
On Sun, 22 Feb 2015, Hugo Osvaldo Barrera wrote: Hi, I need to store some backups files for really long-term (eg: I've no intention of checking them out unless I have some serious hardware crashes). I realize that tarsnap uses AWS for file storage, and these sort of files could really

Re: Glacier Storage

2015-02-22 Thread Colin Percival
Hi Hugo list, On 02/22/15 14:51, Hugo Osvaldo Barrera wrote: On 2015-02-22 11:56, Colin Percival wrote: I discuss this in some detail in the blog post which Marcin linked to, but the short answer is: It's not possible to mark particular files for cold storage due to tarsnap's deduplication;

Re: Glacier Storage

2015-02-22 Thread Robie Basak
On Sun, Feb 22, 2015 at 07:51:27PM -0300, Hugo Osvaldo Barrera wrote: What I had is mind is something like Backup up 200G of photos that I have in my home NAS. I'll only want these if my NAS blows up, which will hopefully be never. git-annex works well with Amazon Glacier for this purpose.

Glacier Storage

2015-02-21 Thread Hugo Osvaldo Barrera
Hi, I need to store some backups files for really long-term (eg: I've no intention of checking them out unless I have some serious hardware crashes). I realize that tarsnap uses AWS for file storage, and these sort of files could really be stored in Amazon Glacier (which has lower storage