News - Amazon Glacier - place your files on ice for a reasonable price

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Latest cloud service from Amazon offers affordable file archiving.

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I heard about this earlier. Hmm...

[KeyboardDemon]

I'm actually thinking about cloud based services for backing up my important data now. I'm not sure if I like the idea of having to queue for hours to retrieve data, but I am keen on a service that monitors my documents folders and backs up data either automatically or periodically, so I can have a fire and forget solution without having to think about wear and tear on the hardware I use.

What other services do you all know of?

The PC World KnowHow 5 year 1tb option seems expensive at £150.

[cheesemp]

Sounds like a good idea (and ideal for backing up my PC off site) but price still feels a little high. Surely someone can give me 1Tb of online storage for ~£50 a year?

[KeyboardDemon]

Sounds like a good idea (and ideal for backing up my PC off site) but price still feels a little high. Surely someone can give me 1Tb of online storage for ~£50 a year?

So £150 over 5 years doesn't sound too bad in that case, it works out to £30 a year, I just know that if I wait until enough companies are offering the service that the prices will come down to a more acceptable level.

[cheesemp]

So £150 over 5 years doesn't sound too bad in that case, it works out to £30 a year, I just know that if I wait until enough companies are offering the service that the prices will come down to a more acceptable level.

Thats a good point. I'd rather have a rolling contract though. £150 is a large down payment for a service that I wouldn't want to assume will still be supported in 5 years.

[Noxvayl]

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I am happy with SugarSync, works perfectly and I have the early-bird offer for SkyDrive giving me 25Gb of storage for media that I can't do without.

[CampGareth]

Backblaze/Crashplan offer alternative services, 'unlimited' backup space for $5/mo for a single computer, really quite handy for me as my 4TB in Glacier would be costing me about £28/mo. No thanks Amazon.

[pctech2012]

So £150 over 5 years doesn't sound too bad in that case, it works out to £30 a year, I just know that if I wait until enough companies are offering the service that the prices will come down to a more acceptable level.

Depending on your space requirements have a look at ZenVault from Zen Internet http://www.zen.co.uk or Netcetera http://www.netcetera.co.uk

Both companies provide excellent service, I use Zen for my broadband and Netcetera host my e-mail.

[KeyboardDemon]

Thanks Noxvayl, CampGareth and pctech2012, I've been thinking about this for ages, not seriously though, I'm now at a point where I have to reinstall my PC and think it would be an excellent time to start looking into something like this more seriously, and these suggestions will save me the time in having to find them myself.

[watercooled]

A client has been released for Glacier, unofficial AFAIK: http://fastglacier.com/
I've not read a great deal about it but if retrieval costs are acceptable, it could be useful for archiving even for home users? But after quickly skimming over, the retrieval fees may be extortionate if you're not careful about how you download...