Comment on Questions on backing up to S3 Glacier Deep Archive.
Rootiest@lemmy.world 10 months agoTbh 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.
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.
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
MigratingtoLemmy@lemmy.world 10 months ago
Thanks