![]() ![]() For instance I recently restored to 2 files with a total less than 2GB and got the following bill. $5 per month for Glacier does not look to bad but you can do better, especially as additionally to the storage fees Glacier has extra fees for restoring the files and transferring data in and out of Glacier. While this seems not too bad on first sight, if you crunch the numbers you will see that storing 500GB of data in S3 will cost you about $50 per month and in Glacier about $5 per month. PricingĪt the time of this writing Amazon S3 cost about $0.1 per GB per month and Glacier about $0.01 per GB per month. The following sections compare both Amazon S3 and Crashplan by looking at different aspects and comparing both services with each other. ![]() In the long run I want to backup all my pictures online and not only the core of my work. ![]() I store my pictures and my main Lightroom catalog on external hard drives in a raid configuration for added redundancy. So far I used Amazon S3 (more precisely Amazon Glacier) to backup my keeper shoots (which is about 35GB worth of data). I have about ~500GB worth of data (mostly pictures and some videos). In this post I will layout why this switch made sense for me and might make sense for you as well. I am in the middle of the moving my online backup system from Amazon S3 to Crashplan. ![]()
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