It's A Digital Disease!

The original post: /r/datahoarder by /u/AdrienJRP on 2024-07-18 14:50:50.

Hi,

I am trying to come up with a clever strategy regarding my personal files.

I have more or less :

• 6 TB of data which doesn't change often (photos)
• 1 Tb of data which needs regular backup (weekly or at least monthly)

Right now I'm working with external hard drives & stuffs, which is not convenient.

I've started looking at Backblaze and Amazon S3 Glacier.

I've used S3 in the past for my own website, only for a few files.

There are a few things I don't understand (I'm really a noob about all of this), so maybe you can help me :

1. How to put the files in Glacier : I only know S3. How am I going to put the Terabytes of data in there ? Do I need to put them first in S3 (in which case I guess I pay 1 month of data in S3 as well ?)
2. How can I manage incremental updates ? Let's say I have a few more photos to add : how to know which one I've uploaded before ? Is there a clever way to do that ?
3. Princing : I tried the AWS calculator, but I don't understand half of the fields : https://calculator.aws/#/createCalculator/S3

I chose :

• 7 TB of storage per month (Glacier Deep Archive)
• 500k PUT request (I will probably upload archived files though to reduce that number)
• average object size of 20 MB

Are there other fields I should fill to get a good understanding of the costs ?

Thanks,

AJRP