AWS Glacier for the home user. Questions

Post Reply
Dilshan
New here
Posts: 4
Joined: Wed May 30, 2012 8:18 pm

AWS Glacier for the home user. Questions

Post by Dilshan »

Hey guys. I was looking at using AWS glacier as part of my backup solution. The files I will be backing up will be a mixture of home photos and videos totalling around 400gb but is rapidly expanding by the day (my partner videos our kids constantly :) ).

My plan is to use HBS 3 to backup to a glacier vault. When I was reading the pricing guide on the amazon website, I can see that both to upload and download incurs an upload and download request fee. Does it make more financial sense to compress the file into a single file rather than be charged high fees more noncompressed multiple files? I can see that HBS 3 has a deduplication option (QudeDup) but this is not recommended for video files. Is there another option for my scenario?

The last question is regarding security. I have set some restrictions to only allow my LAN side to access my NAS. Does anyone know how to setup access to AWS (i.e port forwarding etc).

Thanks in advance.
Post Reply

Return to “Amazon Glacier”