Amazon S3 for backups?

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Is anyone using it for backing up their photography? I'm thinking about doing this as offline backup instead of filling up external hard drives.
 
I was think about this earlier, it has got to be as good as anywhere else in the cloud!
 
See, I reckon it'd be cheaper because the only time you pay is for bandwidth used... so I reckon if it's just for backup then it should work out relatively cheap. I'll look into it and post back my findings.
 
Offline backup sounds a great idea - until you need to use it. Assuming something does go wrong. How long would it take you to download 1000 GB of images?
 
Well people on Virgin 50MB could probably get it downloaded in about 48 hours at max speed. Im pretty sure they would cap you well before though!

People with 10MB or so 9 days ish

People on 1MB would take 90 days

And then most peoples upload would be 256kb so it would take them over a year to upload it in the first place on 24/7!

Fun fun xD

Downloading isnt really so bad though, you could get what you want when you needed it, and spend time downloading the rest occasionally over night!
 
Jacob. said:
Well people on Virgin 50MB could probably get it downloaded in about 48 hours at max speed. Im pretty sure they would cap you well before though!
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No cap or traffic shaping on the 50Mb tarriff ;)

Trying to shift such large ammounts of data across the internet with such restricted upload speeds is horrendous.

In the recent past (last 12 months) I've tried some of the backup services, and after waiting days for relatively small amounts of data to upload, I've canned the idea and stuck with multiple external drives.

Now, if you want to run your own Webserver in the cloud, Amazon EC3's definitely worth looking at :)
 
KayJay said:
See, I reckon it'd be cheaper because the only time you pay is for bandwidth used... so I reckon if it's just for backup then it should work out relatively cheap. I'll look into it and post back my findings.
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Just a note that you also pay per gb per month. So its not just bandwidth costs :)
 
I built a site recently for a particularly well known Hollywood director of photography and it's using S3 as the storage for all his media content and voice overs. Seems to work amazingly well, very fast transfer speeds. I think for backup of site it's a good thing... it'd be nice though if you could buy all your content back on external hard drives like some of the dedicated off site backup services offer.

Quite tempted.
 
hollis_f said:
Offline backup sounds a great idea - until you need to use it. Assuming something does go wrong. How long would it take you to download 1000 GB of images?
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I only use it as a secondary back up, yes it would take ages, but you can go in and get the key files.

I wouldn't consider one back up secure or even two backups at the same physical location.
 
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