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You probably don't want to use Glacier for personal backups if there is a decent chance you need a significant restore, or want it quicker than hours.

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Glacier now has an "expedited" retrieval tier which lets you restore your files within a few minutes. You pay $.03/GB for retrieval using that tier though. The bulk retrieval tier (5-12 hours delay) is $.0025/GB (in the US).

Any other possibile solution? I was thinking of Glacier just beacuse of the RAW camera files I want to backup. I've them in two external HD, I don't access them a lot, so I was thinking of keeping just 1 HD and put the rest in glacier. If it takes 24h to get them back is not a big deal for me.

Glacier is meant as an archive - put stuff in, read just very little bits back. Reading everything/significant parts back costs extra.

But if you're using it as an archive, and not so much as a backup (which for me implies restore), then it might make sense for you. There is a simplified calculator here: http://liangzan.net/aws-glacier-calculator/

Buy external hard disks on special and store them at a friends house or the office.

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