Hi everyone. I was considering backup options to Glacier Deep Archive, and wanted to know:
- Which software do you use to encrypt client-side, obfuscate, compress and deduplicate the data before you send it to S3?
- What is the difference between
Restore Requests (bulk)andOutbound data transferand which one will I be using when I want to pull my data from AWS?
I’ll be storing approximately 8TB or so of data, which is why I was looking at inexpensive ways to back it up other than buying an HDD outright.
Thanks!
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I don’t encrypt before I push to S3. Probably bad practice on my part. I just rely on AWS encryption to secure my data. My backups are low-risk (imo). That said, I lock down the bucket so that only my account can access the objects. Compression I use
tar cjf(bzip). Protip: Once the tar file is made, runtar ljf $archiveFile > archiveFile-ls.txtand store the resulting file along with the tar file in standard storage. That way you know what is in the archive. -
Both.
Restore Requestsis to copy the data out from Glacier into Standard storage. Note that I said copy. When you perform a restore, your original object stays in glacier and AWS creates a copy to somewhere in S3 that you specify. Once the restore is complete, you can then download the copied object like any S3 object, triggering theOutbound data transferfee.
