Comment on Questions on backing up to S3 Glacier Deep Archive.

• Rootiest@lemmy.world ⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Tbh I don’t really bother with Glacier. It is a lot more expensive than it seems when you want to restore anything.

  I generally just use intelligent tiering and it kind of balances out.

  You might think “oh well I’m probably never going to restore from here anyway”

  I am here to tell you that’s a very foolish attitude.

  If you aren’t testing your backups you might as well not have them.

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  • MigratingtoLemmy@lemmy.world ⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    You’re right about testing backups. I will have 2 different backups, one for my config and the second for the irreplaceable media. Indeed, restoration from Glacier is too expensive for the data that I plan to back-up.

    I was looking at Scaleway’s Glacier offering, B2 and iDrive. How do you propose I test my backups? I could certainly pull in my config and test it on a VM, but how do I check that I have backed up my media? I plan to encrypt, compress, deduplicate and then ship it off.

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    • Rootiest@lemmy.world ⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      I guess it depends on how you do it.

      I use Kopia so I can easily mount a snapshot like a removable disk or restore a snapshot so I typically test my backups by simply restoring them

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      • MigratingtoLemmy@lemmy.world ⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

        Thanks

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