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Add to SafariWhen comparing Amazon Glacier vs SpiderOak, the Slant community recommends SpiderOak for most people. In the question“What are the best cloud backup services?” SpiderOak is ranked 5th while Amazon Glacier is ranked 21st. The most important reason people chose SpiderOak is:
Thus you have a single service for all of the things.
Specs
Question Ranking
Pros
Pro Extermely low-cost
$0.007 per gigabyte per month is comparatively cheap and allows for large amounts of cloud storage.
Pro Combines cloud syncing, storage service and backup client
Thus you have a single service for all of the things.
Pro Incrementals
SpiderOak updates only that part of the file that has changed, saving bandwidth and time.
Pro Available for many platforms
The Spideroak client is available for Linux, MacOS, Windows, Android and iOS.
Pro Zero knowledge
Data is locally encrypted before uploading to Spideroak. They cannot recover your data even if they wanted to since it is stored in encrypted state on their servers.
Pro Unintrusive
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.
