Amazon Glacier
 

Does anyone use Amazon Glacier to store/back up large quantities of files? I'm thinking about using it for large-scale RAW photo backup, but I'm struggling to set it up (easy stuff, like just making sense of the interface, etc.)

If anyone would be interested in talking for <10 minutes about how they set it all up, what client they use (I'm on a Mac), etc., I'd be really grateful.

Thanks!

There was discussion of this option in the Travel Photography forum, from some who have used it. You may want to join in there.

http://www.flyertalk.com/forum/trave...os-online.html

I've looked into this quite a bit, the easiest solution seems to be to use S3 storage rather than Glacier directly, and then use the lifecycle settings to transition the files into Glacier storage after a set period of time. There are quite a few clients that can synchronise or backup files / folders to an S3 bucket. On a Mac, the best one appears to be Arq - http://www.haystacksoftware.com/arq/

I've archived 50Gb+ of photos this way without any issues and it is extremely cheap, less than $2 / month overall.

And yes - the discussion linked to above has some good details, I remember looking at that a while back.

Fantastic, I'll look there. Thanks!

FWIW, I've been playing with CrashPlan ... So far so good. I've got a l:eek:t of data to upload, though. It's still going. I'm getting between 3MB/s and 9MB/s per machine.