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0 pointsjordibunster13y ago0 comments

I think the key here is not to just provide a toggle for using Glacier instead of S3, but to have the historical snapshots migrated to Glacier from S3 and deleted every 90+ days.

I will gladly pay more money for Arq again.

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sreitshamer13y ago

I think it would be more like choosing Glacier instead of S3 on a per-folder basis.

Arq is incremental backup. The data structure is similar to git's http://www.haystacksoftware.com/arq/s3_data_format.txt

Unless your files change a lot, keeping the latest backup version in S3 and previous versions in Glacier would mean that most of your backup data are still in S3 I think. Right?

sintaks13y ago

Yes. The forthcoming S3 Lifecycle Policy API additions should allow for exactly this, automatically.

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