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<blockquote data-quote="skater" data-source="post: 259790" data-attributes="member: 19158"><p>Amazon Glacier.</p><p></p><p>It's $0.01/GB per month...with 180 GB, my bill is $1.80 per month. You can't beat it. I tried a lot of other online solutions before this and they were all far more expensive and had limits I was constantly hitting. I currently have about 183 GB worth of pictures. I save my NEFs and edited JPGs.</p><p></p><p>There are some quirks:</p><p>1. Amazon doesn't offer a direct interface. You can either upload to S3 then have it move the files to Glacier, or you can use something like the Java SimpleAmazonGlacierUploader (or something like that). I've used the latter with good success.</p><p></p><p>2. It's not an instant retrieval - you request the file, then four hours later it becomes available. Same for directory listings. If I'm in a situation where I need to retrieve, that four hours isn't going to bother me one tiny bit.</p><p></p><p>3. It's meant for cold storage, not immediate backups, so there is a penalty for deleting files before they've been there 90 days. (The penalty is a penny per gig, so it's not huge money. I early-deleted a file last month and it cost me 20 cents. Or I could've waited until the 90 days was up and it would've been free to delete and I would've saved a dime.)</p><p></p><p>4. There are fees for downloading files, but not uploading. Again, these are reasonable, perhaps a penny a gig if memory serves. Again, if you need it, you're going to be happy to pay it.</p><p></p><p>It works a little strangely - you create a "bucket", then in the bucket goes files. But you don't really want to upload individual pictures. I ZIP them up (no compression, it's not worth the time it takes to get 1% compression) and upload the ZIP files. My photos are organized in a home-brew system that's based on film, so pictures are in "boxes" and "rolls". Each box contains up to 99 "rolls" of pictures, and each roll can have up to 999 pictures in it. With digital pictures, I usually start a new roll every few months, then zip up the "finished" roll and upload it to Glacier.</p><p></p><p>There's one "roll" of pictures that I'm reserving for pictures of a friends' daughter, who just turned one. My decision on that one was to upload it every so often and just delete the prior version. I have another script that warns me when I've added pictures to a roll that was already uploaded. I use a database to keep track of all this, but it could be done with a spreadsheet. Both require some diligence.</p><p></p><p>I'm very happy with the Glacier setup. One of these days I'm going to figure out how to set up S3 to move things to Glacier automatically, then I can use the S3 tools to upload and download files.</p><p></p><p>I use that for "catastrophic" backup - the house burns down or something like that. Aside from that I also have:</p><p>--My laptop keeps a copy of the pictures on my home server.</p><p>--I have an external drive I keep in our camper that also contains a copy, and a script reminds me every 30 days or so to bring it in and update it.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="skater, post: 259790, member: 19158"] Amazon Glacier. It's $0.01/GB per month...with 180 GB, my bill is $1.80 per month. You can't beat it. I tried a lot of other online solutions before this and they were all far more expensive and had limits I was constantly hitting. I currently have about 183 GB worth of pictures. I save my NEFs and edited JPGs. There are some quirks: 1. Amazon doesn't offer a direct interface. You can either upload to S3 then have it move the files to Glacier, or you can use something like the Java SimpleAmazonGlacierUploader (or something like that). I've used the latter with good success. 2. It's not an instant retrieval - you request the file, then four hours later it becomes available. Same for directory listings. If I'm in a situation where I need to retrieve, that four hours isn't going to bother me one tiny bit. 3. It's meant for cold storage, not immediate backups, so there is a penalty for deleting files before they've been there 90 days. (The penalty is a penny per gig, so it's not huge money. I early-deleted a file last month and it cost me 20 cents. Or I could've waited until the 90 days was up and it would've been free to delete and I would've saved a dime.) 4. There are fees for downloading files, but not uploading. Again, these are reasonable, perhaps a penny a gig if memory serves. Again, if you need it, you're going to be happy to pay it. It works a little strangely - you create a "bucket", then in the bucket goes files. But you don't really want to upload individual pictures. I ZIP them up (no compression, it's not worth the time it takes to get 1% compression) and upload the ZIP files. My photos are organized in a home-brew system that's based on film, so pictures are in "boxes" and "rolls". Each box contains up to 99 "rolls" of pictures, and each roll can have up to 999 pictures in it. With digital pictures, I usually start a new roll every few months, then zip up the "finished" roll and upload it to Glacier. There's one "roll" of pictures that I'm reserving for pictures of a friends' daughter, who just turned one. My decision on that one was to upload it every so often and just delete the prior version. I have another script that warns me when I've added pictures to a roll that was already uploaded. I use a database to keep track of all this, but it could be done with a spreadsheet. Both require some diligence. I'm very happy with the Glacier setup. One of these days I'm going to figure out how to set up S3 to move things to Glacier automatically, then I can use the S3 tools to upload and download files. I use that for "catastrophic" backup - the house burns down or something like that. Aside from that I also have: --My laptop keeps a copy of the pictures on my home server. --I have an external drive I keep in our camper that also contains a copy, and a script reminds me every 30 days or so to bring it in and update it. [/QUOTE]
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