You're right, I completely forgot about costs. Definitely, using S3 plugin will be much more cheaper than using Amazon Storage Gateway VTL.
On my scenario, Cloud (S3) is the only place where I could save my backups, but I fully understand the comparison you made about your on premises environment. Thank you all guys On Fri, Jan 17, 2020 at 5:27 PM Dimitri Maziuk via Bacula-users <bacula-users@lists.sourceforge.net> wrote: > > On 1/17/20 1:03 PM, Jason Voorhees wrote: > ... > > I'll start playing around with it. I'll let you know if anything does > > not work as expected. > > You made me look: what I can find on amazon is VTL is > - $125/mo/gateway > - $0.30/restore > - $0.09/GB/month in regular or $0.01/GB/month in "glacial" storage. > > S3 pricing appears to be > - $0.023/GB/month in "standard", $0.01 in "infrequent", and $0.004 in > "glacial" tiers. > > However you pay half a penny per put and $0.0004 for get request on > "standard", and about an order of magnitude more on the other tries. > > Please let us know how much you end up paying, too: 4TB NAS HDD is about > a hundred bucks, one-off, whereas 4TB of VTL storage is $368.64 *every > month*. In "infrequent" S3 it's "only" forty-one bucks per month (so on > the 3rd month you're better off with the hard drive), but the > interesting question is how much you rake up in data transfer fees. > > -- > Dimitri Maziuk > Programmer/sysadmin > BioMagResBank, UW-Madison -- http://www.bmrb.wisc.edu > > _______________________________________________ > Bacula-users mailing list > Bacula-users@lists.sourceforge.net > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/bacula-users _______________________________________________ Bacula-users mailing list Bacula-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/bacula-users
