You first need to create a storage account, and I have to say that the product gives you a large amount of option.Say you have 20 GB of data you want to protect with daily backups using CloudBerry. I reported an issue with the backup detailed report which is inaccessible when you use the S3 Glacier Deep Archive (due to the restrictions from AWS when using this storage tier), and the CloudBerry support rapidly confirmed to me that this known issue will be fixed in the next release. The documentation is well written and I have to say that the CloudBerry support is very efficient. In order to reduce the cost a bit more, and because I do not need to have redundant objects (as I also have another offsite backup on a hard drive), I decided to use the S3 One Zone-Infrequent Access (S3 One Zone-IA) storage tier for $0.01 per GB / month, and $0.005 per 1,000 requests (PUT, COPY, POST, or LIST). For that reason, I made the decision to use the S3 Infrequent Access storage tier, to reduce the minimum storage duration charge from 180 to 30 days. If I decide to keep only one version, this means that there would be objects that would be deleted from the S3 Glacier Deep Archive tier before the minimum of 180 days, hence it would cost me extra money. Then I realized that it would not necessarily be the best option because each backup would store a new version of the modified files. I first selected AWS S3 Glacier Deep Archive and I performed a small backup of 20GB. In my case the initial backup requires about 150'000 PUTs, then the next backups will be smaller since these will only be incremental backups. You should also take in account the number of PUT, UPLOAD, etc. Well, you will tell me that the new storage tier AWS S3 Glacier Deep Archive is also 180 days !!! Yes you are correct, but look at the price, it is $0.00099 per GB / month, yes more than half the price of the Azure Archive Block Blobs with the LRS redundancy. Whereas for the AWS S3 Glacier, this is 90 days. Now if you select GRS, the price increases to $0.0043 per GB / month which is suddenly a bit higher than the $0.004 for AWS S3 Glacier.īeside that, the data stored in the Azure Archive Block Blobs should stay at least 180 days, otherwise you suffer from an early deletion fee. The ZRS (replication over different datacenter in the same region) is not available for the Archive Block Blobs, you have to select GRS (6 copies across two different Regions) if you want your data to be replicated outside a single Availability Zone. You lose your data should Azure lose their datacenter. Whereas for Azure the redundancy is LRS which means that the replication is only in the same datacenter in a Region. By default, Amazon S3 Glacier is replicated at least to 3 Availability Zones (AZ) in a Region, which means in 3 different datacenters. Cool, you will say that Azure is cheaper !!! Yes, but look now at the redundancy. Let's see Amazon S3 Glacier which is $0.004 per GB / month, whereas for Azure their Archive Block Blobs are $0.0023 per GB / month (for the first 50TB / month). Today I would say that comparing features and prices between cloud providers is as complex as comparing car insurances (at least in Switzerland). Is it really as simple as that ? Not at all. There are websites with tools allowing you to compare their prices, like the one from Backblaze. I decided to focus to Amazon Web Services (AWS) and Microsoft Azure. ![]() I also wanted to keep my data in Europe, it is why Backblaze and their very competitive prices was not an option for me. Having a cheaper solution than CrashPlan was not my single goal. Having a backup software is good, but if you do not know where to send your data, it is useless. I finally decided to evaluate their solution CloudBerry Backup for Mac OS. ![]() I heard about CloudBerry Lab a number of months back, however I've never been taking the time to evaluate their solutions. CrashPlan is a good solution but with Amazon S3 and a large number of software supporting the S3 API, I thought that it was no longer worth spending 10$ / month for my offsite backups, especially that with this amount I can string the tennis rackets for my daughter playing tennis, but this is another story. After using CrashPlan for years to perform my offsite backups, I decided a few weeks ago to look for a cheaper alternative.
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