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Re: Dropbox big-time

Posted by Barry MacKichan on Jan 16, 2013; 7:50pm
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I'll put in my two cents.

All the files I care about are on a Mac, so I use Arq, which backs up to Amazon's S3 and Glacier services. There are two levels of S3 service which vary in their redundancy. The higher level (S3 standard storage) claims:
  • Designed for 99.999999999% durability and 99.99% availability of objects over a given year.
  • Designed to sustain the concurrent loss of data in two facilities.

    • The price is now $.095 per gigabyte per month. I have watched it go down from $.15 to $.095, but it may not be going down as fast as hard drive prices.

    Amazon's Glacier storage is $.01 per gigabyte per month, but it has a time delay on recovery (about 4 hours, enough time for the gerbils to mount a tape). It can get expensive to move a lot of data in and out of Glacier, but it is fine for long time storage.

    So now I have my home folder tree on Time Machine and Amazon S3. I have a music and old data (carried forth from PC to PC since the late 80's) on Glacier, so for most of my data (but not bought applications) I have copies 1) on my Mac, 2) on my Time Machine, and 3) on S3 and Glacier offsite.

    The next problem is if (when) I have to reduce the amount of data on my Mac (when going to SSD, possibly) I will need a place for the data moved off my Mac and my Tiime Machine. I probably will go with a Drobo, which has a good bit of redundancy and which would require only a Glacier backup ($10.00 per terabyte per month) .

    I am putting some faith in Amazon, but their record is so far quite good, and a disk in a safety deposit box, at least in my case, would be updated rarely if at all.

    --Barry




    On Jan 16, 2013, at 9:30 AM, Owen Densmore wrote:

    I figured out the google drive vs g+ plan.  It turns out they are integrated, a good thing I think.  I was concerned it was yet another half baked stunt but this seems pretty well managed.

       -- Owen

    torage plan pricing

    Learn about your options for purchasing more storage for Google Drive, Google+ Photos, and Gmail.

    Store up to 5 GB between Google Drive and Google+ Photos, then pay for additional storage as your account grows. Here's how it works:

    • Tap into your free storage as soon as you start using Google Drive and G+ Photos.
    • Purchase additional storage that can be shared across Google Drive and G+ Photos. When you purchase additional storage, your Gmail storage limit will automatically be increased to 25 GB.
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