Re: Glacier Storage

2015-02-23 Thread Colin Percival
On 02/23/15 05:28, John Gamble wrote: >> Understood. And for this, the best solution is probably to use something >> other than Tarsnap. Given that you're going to upload them once and never >> touch them again (hopefully) there are lots of tools which will do the job >> for you -- removing the n

Re: Glacier Storage

2015-02-23 Thread John Gamble
Hi Colin, > Understood. And for this, the best solution is probably to use something > other than Tarsnap. Given that you're going to upload them once and never > touch them again (hopefully) there are lots of tools which will do the job > for you -- removing the need for deduplication makes eve

Re: Glacier Storage

2015-02-22 Thread Colin Percival
Hi Hugo & list, On 02/22/15 14:51, Hugo Osvaldo Barrera wrote: > On 2015-02-22 11:56, Colin Percival wrote: >> I discuss this in some detail in the blog post which Marcin linked to, >> but the short answer is: It's not possible to mark particular files for >> "cold storage" due to tarsnap's dedupl

Re: Glacier Storage

2015-02-22 Thread Robie Basak
On Sun, Feb 22, 2015 at 07:51:27PM -0300, Hugo Osvaldo Barrera wrote: > What I had is mind is something like "Backup up 200G of photos that I have in > my home NAS. I'll only want these if my NAS blows up, which will hopefully be > never." git-annex works well with Amazon Glacier for this purpose.

Re: Glacier Storage

2015-02-22 Thread Hugo Osvaldo Barrera
On 2015-02-22 11:56, Colin Percival wrote: > Hi Hugo & list, > > On 02/21/15 22:14, Hugo Osvaldo Barrera wrote: > > I need to store some backups files for really long-term (eg: I've no > > intention > > of checking them out unless I have some serious hardware crashes). > > > > I realize that tar

Re: Glacier Storage

2015-02-22 Thread Colin Percival
Hi Hugo & list, On 02/21/15 22:14, Hugo Osvaldo Barrera wrote: > I need to store some backups files for really long-term (eg: I've no intention > of checking them out unless I have some serious hardware crashes). > > I realize that tarsnap uses AWS for file storage, and these sort of files > cou

Re: Glacier Storage

2015-02-22 Thread Marcin Cieslak
On Sun, 22 Feb 2015, Hugo Osvaldo Barrera wrote: > Hi, > > I need to store some backups files for really long-term (eg: I've no intention > of checking them out unless I have some serious hardware crashes). > > I realize that tarsnap uses AWS for file storage, and these sort of files > could >