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Add to SafariWhen comparing Amazon Glacier vs Tarsnap, the Slant community recommends Tarsnap for most people. In the question“What are the best cloud backup services?” Tarsnap is ranked 13th while Amazon Glacier is ranked 21st. The most important reason people chose Tarsnap is:
Encryption allows the use to access their files with only their own keys and the deduplication saves on costs of storage as any duplicate file will be removed automatically. So not only is the platform safety minded but cost is taken into account for the user as well.
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Pros
Pro Extermely low-cost
$0.007 per gigabyte per month is comparatively cheap and allows for large amounts of cloud storage.
Pro Focus on encryption and deduplication
Encryption allows the use to access their files with only their own keys and the deduplication saves on costs of storage as any duplicate file will be removed automatically. So not only is the platform safety minded but cost is taken into account for the user as well.
Pro No need to worry about versioning
Cons
Con Not a backup service
Using Amazon Glacier for backup requires learning and setting up third-party tools.
Con Data transfer out >1GB costs money
Retrieving a backup over 1GB costs money starting at $0.090 for 10GB.
Con Can't get to data instantly
Data retrieval can take several hours to initiate.
Con No automatic deletion of old backups
Users will have to manually delete their old backups as there is no way to set a threshold of when older backups should be removed.
Con Awkward setup of encryption keys
