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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.

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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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