Synology Backup

scottalanmiller

@scottalanmiller said in Synology Backup:

Amazon Glacier is Fifty CENTS per month for 1TB and you can go as big as you like.

Also, where you getting 50 cents from? I'm still getting about $4. $0.004/GB / Month..

$.004 x 1024 and round a little.

scottalanmiller

@dbeato said in Synology Backup:

Though requests from S3 and Glacier are expensive when restoring/retrieving and pulls down

"Expensive" isn't an appropriate term there. Considering the average restore is something like once a decade, it's dirt cheap.

dbeato

@scottalanmiller "Costly"? Worth the money for your data, I am assuming that's what you mean.

smartkid808

@scottalanmiller OK, Im getting .004*1024 = $4.10.. Am i missing something, or calculating wrong, or is it $.50/TB.

I am with you on recovery.. Hopefully its never, but even then, my current NAS that died is 7 years old, which I got for free from Drobo on SW..

@scottalanmiller, Have you used any of the Synology built in apps to back up to glacier?

scottalanmiller

@smartkid808 said in Synology Backup:

@scottalanmiller, Have you used any of the Synology built in apps to back up to glacier?

I have not.

scottalanmiller

@smartkid808 said in Synology Backup:

I am with you on recovery.. Hopefully its never, but even then, my current NAS that died is 7 years old, which I got for free from Drobo on SW..

Seven years on an entry level consumer device is pretty good. The average lifespan of those is way under what you get from ReadyNAS or Synology or a SAM-SD. Move up to SMB Business class, and your average should hit 10+ years.

scottalanmiller

@smartkid808 said in Synology Backup:

@scottalanmiller OK, Im getting .004*1024 = $4.10.. Am i missing something, or calculating wrong, or is it $.50/TB.

Oops, bad math. Yes, $4.10. That makes more sense (cents.) Still, dirt cheap. If you need less than a TB, you pay less. And you get like 10GB free, too.

wrx7m

@smartkid808 said in Synology Backup:

@scottalanmiller OK, Im getting .004*1024 = $4.10.. Am i missing something, or calculating wrong, or is it $.50/TB.

I am with you on recovery.. Hopefully its never, but even then, my current NAS that died is 7 years old, which I got for free from Drobo on SW..

@scottalanmiller, Have you used any of the Synology built in apps to back up to glacier?

I used it for years. Never had a problem.

smartkid808

Now to figure out AWS Glacier security setup.. I think I got the base setup, just advanced security etc.

Reid Cooper

@smartkid808 said in Synology Backup:

Now to figure out AWS Glacier security setup.. I think I got the base setup, just advanced security etc.

Good luck.

Reid Cooper

If you want to mitigate the risks of needing to pull down data from Glacier, take a local backup to a USB drive, as well. Pretty cheap to do these days. And would protect against nearly all situations where you might need to download from Glacier.