Amazon S3 has a 5TB object size limit and only 5GB (!) can be uploaded in a single PUT[1]. Different limits, but still something people have to work around.
An actual filesystem on ZFS makes all of these limits disappear. Does anyone offer cloud storage based on that ?
Man, that would be awesome.
[1] http://docs.aws.amazon.com/AmazonS3/latest/dev/UploadingObje...
rsync.net advertises
> a ZFS filesystem, accessible with any SSH/SFTP tool, running on a UNIX system.
You're paying for that though, rsync.net starts at 8c/GB/month (for 10+TB), the smallest offering (under 1TB) is 20c/GB/month), by comparison S3 is 2.75c to 3c/GB/month in standard storage (and 1.25c/GB/month for IA)
rsync.net charges more for data at rest but they don't charge for downloads which is a significant savings for some use-cases. Also note that AWS's IA storage has a $0.01/GB retrieval charge on top of their standard data transfer out charges.
Actually, the ZFS send/recv capable accounts start at 6 cents and go down from there. There's a bit of a cost reduction since we don't create and maintain snapshots for you - you take care of that yourself, with your own zpool at rsync.net.
Email us. We'll talk.
You can emergency page us on Christmas day.
We'll set up "pull" jobs on our end to pull the backups from you.
These things are very valuable to some people ...
I'm in the latter category and I'd rather have the choice to pay for it than be forced into it, which is why despite loving the trial I had with you guys, I couldn't justify continuing.
Mik (Online.net network)
> Where is my data stored?
> Your data will be stored in our fallout shelter, located 25 meters under the ground in Paris, France, starting in September 2016.
So where is it for now? And like Backblaze, a single site storage solution means you should only consider this as an extra backup (not primary storage).
There's a note that in September they'll also be expanding to offer multisite, but don't have pricing yet for that (hopefully just 2-3x depending on number of sites)
I'm curious about the 40 TB per archive limit. Is that some sort of equivalent to a full back blaze storage pod? I can't imagine an S3/GCS bucket restriction like that, so I'm curious how customers will be expected to work around it.
Disclosure: I work on Google Cloud (but not on GCS).