(fortunately, it'd only take 3-4 months to bittorrent down all those, ummm, linux ISOs...)
Oh, I would, but I guess you meant per byte.
At current rates it's $3K monthly to keep a backup of this HDD on tarsnap and that's not including bandwidth. That's six 10TB drives.
I don't mean to discourage from tarsnap though. Cloud storage is unfortunately still pretty expensive, and most people are probably only truly paranoid about much less than 1GB of their data.
I've got terabytes backed up, no issues at all.
edit: I wonder if Amazon goal with this was to get their hands on as many photos with their full metadata as possible (for training).
It's concerning to hear, since I know people using it for backups.
In my case it was 90GB, a whole single machine. The fact that they were pretty causal about it, is worrying. But I still use them for some use cases because they have unlimited storage with software for Linux, although I don't depend on them.
Quote from the support ticket:
"I have looked again for your data, but we are unable to locate the archive anywhere in our system.
I am sincerely sorry that we have let you down as there is not a reason that I can find that this data should not be here.
If there is anything that I can to for you, please do not hesitate to ask and I will do so."
I can upload several hundred gigabytes per day without any throttling or other issues, so I suspect your issues are with your ISP and not Amazon.
sounded good, and got depressed from the Australia Tax. US$59, but AU$100.
AU$100 - $10 = $90 (ish) as taxes are built into our prices, not added later
90 Australian play dollars = 69 American real dollars
US$69 - $59 US price = Australia Tax of ~US$10, approx 16%.
In your case, even with the exchange rate as it is, price parity would be ~$80. If the taxes are ~$10 as you suggested, that means you're paying another what? $10 for essentially the same service? In a way, I'm surprised it's "only" that much more, but it's still terrible for Australian consumers.
Will report back.
I downloaded a full restore of the state of my Macbook Air as of roughly one month ago for testing. I don't have the storage space for a total restore (which would be tens of TBs I guess, since it's an incremental backup solution [unless you could restore all the files instead of all the backups]), but I've tested everything I care about.
I actually just deleted most of the backups from Amazon (just to be nice), since I don't really need to have backups of everything that has ever touched my Downloads folders or web browser cache for example.
I hate to pick nits... But my email alone is about 8 GB for the past 25 years.
That doesn't include documents, photos, etc...
I think we underestimate what Joe Average cares about.
On the other hand, 1GB is pretty tight. I suspect there's a lot of people who could come up with 1GB of photos they don't care to part with, and coming up with 1GB of valuable home videos is child's play, even assuming efficient encodings of the video rather than the rather flabby stuff that tends to come straight out of consumer cameras or phones.
But I bet if most people had to fit the Family Jewels into 10GB, they could, just one more order of magnitude away. Of course HN will have a way-above-average number of people who have way-above-average video recordings and such. Or, perhaps more realistically, call it a single 32GB SD card. At the moment my "family jewels" clocks in at about 90GB, however, that is with no judgment whatsoever about what photos we keep and with a lot of the aforementioned "flabby" videos, not to mention, no judgment whatsoever about what videos we're keeping either.
It mostly comes down to how many photos you take, really.
When I worked for Nationwide insurance (50 to 60 thousand people) we could keep as much email as we wanted locally, but no more than 100 mb on the server. This is a stupid policy, but it is a common policy.
I'd consider a backup solution that takes 3+years to make a full backup (or 4 months for a restore) to be of negative value to me...
(I wonder how many months I'd get away with uploading 300GB/month before my "unlimited" ADSL plan hit me with it's "acceptable use" disclaimers? Given that I'd be using 100% of my upload bandwidth to take this 3 year backup, I suspect the cost of 2 identical drives to make local backups would probably be cheaper than the network costs of sending it to tarsnap!)
I would like to use borg backup, but it isn't as flexible as arq.
Personally I have close to 7TB of backups and personal video footage stored, everything encrypted, never had any issues.
However there's always the danger of them pulling a onedrive at some point in the future and reverting from unlimited back to something like 1TB if people actually use it.