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 be stored in Amazon Glacier (which has lower storage costs). I'm > wondering if you guys (eg: tarsnap devs) would ever be willing to implement a > a feature to mark a certain file (or maybe all the files stored with a certain > key) as frozen/long term storge. > > I'm not just thinking about reducing costs to the end users; some of the > savings can be kept by tarsnap itself in these scenarios, and, unless the > implementation is a pain, there might end up being some profit on both sides. > > What do you guys think? Is this doable, or is there some technical limitation?
There is a post from Colin related to the subject: http://www.daemonology.net/blog/2012-09-04-why-tarsnap-doesnt-use-glacier.html //Marcin
