Re: Glacier Storage

[Marcin Cieslak <saper@saper.info>]

On Sun, 22 Feb 2015, Hugo Osvaldo Barrera wrote:

> Hi,
> 
> I need to store some backups files for really long-term (eg: I've no intention
> of checking them out unless I have some serious hardware crashes).
> 
> I realize that tarsnap uses AWS for file storage, and these sort of files could
> really be stored in Amazon Glacier (which has lower storage costs). I'm
> wondering if you guys (eg: tarsnap devs) would ever be willing to implement a
> a feature to mark a certain file (or maybe all the files stored with a certain
> key) as frozen/long term storge.
> 
> I'm not just thinking about reducing costs to the end users; some of the
> savings can be kept by tarsnap itself in these scenarios, and, unless the
> implementation is a pain, there might end up being some profit on both sides.
> 
> What do you guys think? Is this doable, or is there some technical limitation?

There is a post from Colin related to the subject:

http://www.daemonology.net/blog/2012-09-04-why-tarsnap-doesnt-use-glacier.html

//Marcin