Inexpensive offsite storage
Oct 28, 2020 07:39:35 #
Polar Backup which runs on the Amazon AWS platform has a sale going on for 5TB for a lifetime fee of 99.00. This is cold storage but it will restore your files in 3-12 hours. I put my data up there and when I did a download request I had the files in less than the 3 hours. This is great for photo projects and any other data backup. Runs on Windows and Mac.
Oct 28, 2020 08:25:48 #
Oct 28, 2020 08:36:38 #
Oct 28, 2020 10:00:54 #
Excuse me??? AWS is the most reliable service in the technology market. Most fortune 500's use it for cold storage. Not reliable?
Oct 28, 2020 10:27:43 #
gouldopfl wrote:
Excuse me??? AWS is the most reliable service in the technology market. Most fortune 500's use it for cold storage. Not reliable?
To whom are you responding? I have seen no negative comments.
Oct 28, 2020 10:41:23 #
FreddB
Loc: PA - Delaware County
gouldopfl wrote:
Excuse me??? AWS is the most reliable service in the technology market. Most fortune 500's use it for cold storage. Not reliable?
They didn't say AWS was unreliable; said their data wasn't worth the cost to save it.
Oct 28, 2020 11:10:44 #
Oct 28, 2020 12:06:32 #
juan_uy
Loc: Uruguay
gouldopfl wrote:
Polar Backup which runs on the Amazon AWS platform has a sale going on for 5TB for a lifetime fee of 99.00. This is cold storage but it will restore your files in 3-12 hours. I put my data up there and when I did a download request I had the files in less than the 3 hours. This is great for photo projects and any other data backup. Runs on Windows and Mac.
Interesting, thanks for sharing. Although I never trust 100% this one-payment lifetime services as it is clearly not sustainable in the mid and long terms, I will check this one.
A question that I have is, it took 3 hours for you to get a single file to download?
It that is the case, how long would take a bigger or event total download/restore?
Looks like archiving more than backup, and one with very slow access :-/
Oct 28, 2020 12:32:18 #
juan_uy wrote:
Interesting, thanks for sharing. Although I never trust 100% this one-payment lifetime services as it is clearly not sustainable in the mid and long terms, I will check this one.
A question that I have is, it took 3 hours for you to get a single file to download?
It that is the case, how long would take a bigger or event total download/restore?
Looks like archiving more than backup, and one with very slow access :-/
A question that I have is, it took 3 hours for you to get a single file to download?
It that is the case, how long would take a bigger or event total download/restore?
Looks like archiving more than backup, and one with very slow access :-/
He said files not file.
Oct 28, 2020 13:21:41 #
The file upload/ download is just as fast as your internet. This is "cold" storage which doesn't give you the same features and retrieval access times as "hot" storage. At 5 Tb, they are making money. The normal expectation for cold storage is that you are not uploading/downloading all of the time but using it to store files that you might need later. Cold storage is very inexpensive they have just written a wrapper around AWS storage.
When I still had my development company, I uses AWS to store old versions of our software and all of customers configurations.
When I still had my development company, I uses AWS to store old versions of our software and all of customers configurations.
Oct 28, 2020 15:44:00 #
Oct 28, 2020 15:44:18 #
juan_uy
Loc: Uruguay
gouldopfl wrote:
The file upload/ download is just as fast as your ... (show quote)
Thanks for the reply
Oct 29, 2020 05:59:36 #
robertcbyrd
Loc: 28754
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Oct 29, 2020 08:57:37 #
Explain the need for offsite storage, please.
--Bob
--Bob
gouldopfl wrote:
Polar Backup which runs on the Amazon AWS platform has a sale going on for 5TB for a lifetime fee of 99.00. This is cold storage but it will restore your files in 3-12 hours. I put my data up there and when I did a download request I had the files in less than the 3 hours. This is great for photo projects and any other data backup. Runs on Windows and Mac.
Oct 29, 2020 09:42:49 #
rmalarz wrote:
Explain the need for offsite storage, please.
--Bob
--Bob
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