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		crazygringo 9 months ago \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Backblaze Drive Stats for 2024 Have you checked the costs for restoring from Glacier? It's not the backing up part that's expensive. I would not be surprised if you decided to spend the dozen hours of your time after all.

t0mas88 9 months ago | [–]

AWS Glacier removed the retrieval pricing issue for most configurations, but the bandwidth costs are still there. You pay $ 90 to retrieve 1 TB.

dharmab 9 months ago | [–]

The retrieval cost is less than 1 hour of my time and I expect less than 10% chance I'll ever need it.

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