#Crashplan for qnap archive#
#Crashplan for qnap download#

For S3 you will need the AmazonS3FullAccess permission, for Glacier the AmazonGlacierFullAccess permission In the next screen your directly attach existing policies, or create a new group with the required policies attached.Create a username and select programmatic access, so your QNAP can access the AWS APIs.

This is something you configure under Identity and Access Management (IAM) in AWS: You have to enter an Access Key and Secret key here. Choose S3 or Glacier, create a descriptive name and select to settings to enter the account name.

Open the Hybrid Cloud Sync app, select storage spaces in the menu and create a new cloud space. The initial configuration for both S3 and Glacier is quite the same. Notice that data-in is free, you pay for dat- out from AWS to the internet pricing for S3 and Glacier is identical here.Īlso read this comment on reddit about Glacier pricing in combination with lifecycle rules. With Glacier you only have to pay for UPLOAD requests.

Apart from storage pricing, you also have to deal with GET, PUT, COPY, POST and list requests for S3. With a 500 GB backup-set prices will be around $24, $75 and $138 annually. So S3 IA is more than 3 times more expensive that Glacier, and S3 is 6 times more expensive than Glacier.

S3 IA storage: $0,0125 per GB per month (for the first 50 TB).

S3 standard storage: $0,023 per GB per month (for the first 50 TB).

Look at the following list that is applicable to storage pricing: I will get into this in a future post.įrom a pricing perspective there’s a big difference between the different options. Note that you can automatically move data from S3 to Glacier leveraging lifecycle rules. There’s a minimum storage duration of 90 days for Glacier. There’s no SLA for Glacier, however the service is designed for an annual durablity of 99.999999999%. Read more about the different retrieval options, and related costs here. Once the retrieval job completes, you’re data will be available for download. When you want to make a request to retrieve data from Glacier, you actually initiate a retrieval job for an archive. The quicker you want to access your data, the more you have to pay to retrieve it.

#Crashplan for qnap download#

Glacier is designed for (very) infrequent access: you have to wait somewhere between a couple of minutes and several hours before you can download your backup/archive data. It stores archives in a flat structure, so there’s no hierarchy here.

#Crashplan for qnap archive#

You can store and retrieve data through the AWS S3 API and the AWS console.ĪWS Glacier is archive storage, so just for archiving and/or long-term backup. For backup purposes IA looks like the better option. IA has cheaper storage pricing, but data requests are more expensive. You pay for the amount of data stored in S3, for data requests and for (network) data out of AWS to the internet. You pay for what you use, but with IA there’s a minimum storage duration of 30 days. S3 is designed for 99.999999999% durability, and 99.9 – 99.99% availability (notice the difference between durability and availability).S3 comes in different flavours: S3 standard, and S3 standard – infrequent access (IA). A bucket is the root object which S3 leverages to store files in a hierarchy. It stores objects (files) in a hierarchy (folder structure) and leverages Amazon’s scalable storage infrastructure. S3 and Glacier are perfectly suitable to function as a backup target.ĪWS S3 is object storage. AWS also offers solutions like Elastic File Storage (EFS) and Elastic Block Storage (EBS), but these options are meant for other use cases. A first look at AWS S3 and Glacierīoth S3 and Glacier are storage options that can be used for backup and archiving.

In this blogpost I will have a closer look at S3 and Glacier. For the remote cloud based backup HBS offers support for AWS S3 and Glacier, Google Cloud Storage, Microsoft Azure Storage and OpenStack Swift. Currently, “off-site” is Crashplan for me, but this has to change.Īn external hard disk backup (using versioning) can be implemented using the local backup option HBS.

2 of which are local but on different medium/devices Ī practical implementation of the 3-2-1 strategy is to have one copy of the data on the QNAP, one copy of the data on an external disk and one copy somewhere off-site.

It’s always a good thing to use a combination of backup solutions, as the “backup 3-2-1 strategy” tells you: HBS includes support for a great variety of storage options, including local, remote and cloud based backup solutions. One of the alternatives is to use the native Hybrid Backup Sync (HBS) application available on QNAP. I’m currently running a QNAP TS-671, and used to run the Crashplan application on the device. With the recent announcement from Crashplan that they will discontinue Crashplan for Home, it was time for me to re-evaluate the backup strategy of my personal data.