Ice cold archive storage

Re:Ice cold archive storage by lucb1e on Thursday April 11, 2019 @01:51PM (#19637255)

Same here. As a company you can go "we need this to save our asses, I don't care if it costs $50k in a 4 person company", but personally I kind of do care about the cost for retrieval...

I've been comparing cloud storage prices to hard drive prices for years now. My first thought when seeing the storage prices was "huh, that might actually be worth it", but depending on the retrieval costs, you might still want to roll your own no matter the storage costs. For private use, I am (was?) planning a variant of this as soon as I am finished doing a server migration: https://old.reddit.com/r/DataHoarder/comments/7rjcdn/home_ma...

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Re:Ice cold archive storage by z3t4 on Thursday April 11, 2019 @02:59PM (#19638002)

Also compare with ftp and storage vps. Cheapest ive seen is 1$ per TB /month.

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Re:Ice cold archive storage by icebraining on Thursday April 11, 2019 @08:39PM (#19640798)

A cheap storage VPS won't give you 11 9s of durability, though. Chances are a single drive failure will cause data loss.

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Re:Ice cold archive storage by lucb1e on Friday April 12, 2019 @02:32AM (#19642495)

It's your backup, not your primary system. The odds that more than one drive fails within the same, say, week, is probably perfectly acceptable for most people.

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Re:Ice cold archive storage by z3t4 on Friday April 12, 2019 @01:46AM (#19642293)

You can hash the data at regular intervals to make sure it's intact. For example adding this command to crontab:

    /usr/bin/md5sum --quiet -c md5sum.chk

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