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by z77dj3kl 1830 days ago
This wouldn't be the primary backup, but Deep Glacier is just such a good deal that: I'd be happy to pay the $50 per year for a call option on my data, it'd make me sleep better at night!

Part of my calculus is that I have quite strong confidence in AWS in terms of business continuity and reliability/availability. If I dump my files on AWS, I have high confidence in the files (and AWS) being around in 10 years and retrievable for roughly the same price (or at least no more).

Hetzner would have much lower durability. I'm a bit suss on Backblaze, though I do trust them to be more durable than my self-managed disks (and uncorrelated to my failures). I don't know much about Wasabi; but it's not a good sign for me that their landing page touts their latest funding round at the top: seems young and you never know if the price is subsidized with VC money (and won't be in n years) or similar.

> Also, what happens if you have to retrieve data twice from Glacier?

The killer is the egress. I'd just buy a new set of disks and download it straight there.

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I suppose you can't check for backup data integrity inside Glacier.