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Posted by: Kevin Richardson on 18 April 2017

I recently got symmetrical gigabit internet in my home. I use Amazon Prime's 99$/year unlimited storage plan. I can confirm that they provide a consistent 480 Mbps for uploading files. I can do backups at 200-220 GB/ hour.

I work with Azure and created a music backup program but the bandwith to Azure was about 20% of Amazon's.

Im currently writing software to leverage AWS Glacier storage to automate music backups and if anybody is interested I can share it when ready.

Posted on: 19 April 2017 by nbpf

Sure, I would be interested to try cloud storage services! So far I have been using both local and remote backups for all my data, not only for music files. I mainly transfer file differences, thus bandwidth is not an issue. If I had to make a lot of snapshots it would be, of course. I manage virtually all my data transfer via rsync. I have written a number of "mirror", "snapshot", "add", "restore" etc. scripts. They have different names and take care of calling rsync with different options and for different tasks. For me, this has been a seamless, fuss-free solution for years: just call a script from the command line when needed or have cron run it automatically. But cloud storage brings up new opportunities, of course. Thanks, nbpf

Posted on: 19 April 2017 by Mr Underhill

Hi Kevin,

What is the download speed - and is there any limits in terms of bulk download?

Are there any T&Cs wrt the integrity/consistency of the stored data?

Thx,

M

Posted on: 19 April 2017 by Kevin Richardson
Mr Underhill posted:

Hi Kevin,

What is the download speed - and is there any limits in terms of bulk download?

Are there any T&Cs wrt the integrity/consistency of the stored data?

Thx,

M

In my tests I got up to 960 Mbps for download operations. Probably average 500 Mbps. I was mostly concerned with uploading as 95% of backup traffic is in that direction.

Im not sure about the fine print but I trust Amazon 100%.

I am going to secure a license to their API for the Prime drive ASAP. 

Posted on: 19 April 2017 by ChrisSU

With a very asymmetrical, 4.5MB on a good day speed, this is obviously not an option for me at the moment. I'm curious, though: would you trust a service like this as your only backup, which seems to be what you are proposing?

Posted on: 19 April 2017 by Adam Zielinski

Hmmm - an interesting option. Says he who is always obsessed with backing things up (currently 2 off-network drives, stored in a fire-proof and antimagentic safe + separate NAS at work, which gets updted every quarter....)

Posted on: 19 April 2017 by Kevin Richardson
ChrisSU posted:

With a very asymmetrical, 4.5MB on a good day speed, this is obviously not an option for me at the moment. I'm curious, though: would you trust a service like this as your only backup, which seems to be what you are proposing?

Yes. I currently keep a backup outside my house on a portable hard drive. My history with external HDDs is that the usually die for no apparent reason. Also the offsite location is still within 5 miles of my home. Amazon spends 100's of MM on their cloud presence. I am confident they have covered every conceivable contingency 1000x better than I could do on my own.