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[Adrian Noland]

On 1/18/08, Cliff Hirsch <cliff at pinestream.com> wrote:
>
>  Is anyone using Amazon S3 for backup? Instead of getting another
> independent server, setting up rsync, etc. this seems like a good solution
> for backing up a server or sql database. Sure, my ISP does daily backups,
> but having more control by backing up the database off-site would make me
> sleep better.
>
> Anyone have any experience? Good, bad, suggestions, ideas? Any other
> alternatives worth looking at?
>

My big problem is that it costs more to get data out than to put it in.

http://www.amazon.com/S3-AWS-home-page-Money/b?ie=UTF8&node=16427261
*Storage
*$0.15 per GB-Month of storage used

*Data Transfer
*$0.10 per GB - all data transfer in
$0.18 per GB - first 10 TB / month data transfer out
$0.16 per GB - next 40 TB / month data transfer out
$0.13 per GB - data transfer out / month over 50 TB

Not a scenario I want to be dealing with during a stressful situation.

Take a look at an actual backup provider such as raidarray.net or rsync.net
.
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