Tracy R Reed wrote:
> Stewart Stremler wrote:
>>> Twenty cents per gigabyte to upload, fifteen cents per gigabyte a
>>> month, yes?
> 
> 15-20 cents per gigabyte to upload depending on volume (they recently
> added the volume discount to the pricing, used to be 20 cents) and 10
> cents per gigabyte per month for storage.

Does anyone else but me find S3 backup painfully slow ? Somewhat awkward
too, as if you are encrypting, you're pretty much limited to doing
incremental backups on your end, otherwise everything changes in every
file necessitating monstrous upload time.  I also found some clients
couldn't cope with >2GB files, and had to split them up.

Backing up about 7GB took days. I tried cockpit/jet3S, S3Dav &
JungleDisk (WebDavFS --- which basically just cached everything locally
doubling disk usage while writing incredibly and painfully slowly to
S3),  and other clients. I got the best performance from the command
line using s3sync, but still painfully slow even on a fast connection.

I can see using S3 for backing relatively small important files, but it
seems to me not to be well suited to use as an off-site complete system
backup.

David Looney

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Even the wicked get worse than they deserve. - Willa Cather


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