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Questions on backing up to S3 Glacier Deep Archive.
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Tbh I don't really bother with Glacier. It is a lot more expensive than it seems especially when you want to restore anything.
I generally just use intelligent tiering and it kind of balances out.
You might think "oh well I'm probably never going to restore from here anyway"
I am here to tell you that's a very foolish attitude.
If you aren't testing your backups you might as well not have them.
My honest advice if you must insist on using Glacier is to start off in a normal tier, and keep it there long enough to have tested the backups before transferring it as-is into Glacier.
It's not perfect as there's really no guarantee that data remains safe but at least it mitigates the possibility and reduces the cost to initially use standard tiers before retiring it to Glacier.
You're right about testing backups. I will have 2 different backups, one for my config and the second for the irreplaceable media. Indeed, restoration from Glacier is too expensive for the data that I plan to back-up.
I was looking at Scaleway's Glacier offering, B2 and iDrive. How do you propose I test my backups? I could certainly pull in my config and test it on a VM, but how do I check that I have backed up my media? I plan to encrypt, compress, deduplicate and then ship it off.
I guess it depends on how you do it.
I use Kopia so I can easily mount a snapshot like a removable disk or restore a snapshot so I typically test my backups by simply restoring them
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