Re:I ended up paying $150 for a single 60GB download from Am...
by Sanddancer on Sunday January 17, 2016 @08:48PM
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Depends. Having an in-house key and shipping everything to Amazon encrypted means that you have all the infrastructure there and waiting, and not capable of being read. Additionally, that tape library would need to be stored, and periodically tested so that tapes can be rotated out as needed. Sending that data to a service like glacier means you've shown due diligence, but at the same time, don't need to maintain a schedule of testing every disk every year.
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Re:I ended up paying $150 for a single 60GB download from Am...
by PhantomGremlin on Monday January 18, 2016 @12:05AM
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don't need to maintain a schedule of testing every disk every year.
So you trust Glacier or Google Nearline (or any similar provider) without testing? No testing ever???
I wouldn't feel happy with my critical data floating around in the cloud, without my checking it at least once a year to make sure it really exists.
And once you do start verifying that data, you will incur all sorts of charges to access it.