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As cool as this could be, this service is not passing any company-grade backup quality requirements. Also, the price is a complete no. Not because 5€/m is much, but because 5€/m can get you hundreds of GBs of storage in AWS Glacier, with contractual guarantees about your data, how it's managed, etc...

Basically, this is a toy. Use it as a toy, not as a service where you'd actually put your company files.

That said, good job!

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> because 5€/m can get you hundreds of GBs of storage in AWS Glacier

Yes... until you want to take anything back out - then you're going to have to wait, and you're going to pay a lot more than €5

Indeed, but it matters how much of the data you want to recover and how fast you want to recover it. Getting 100gb from glacier is not expensive at all if you can wait a couple of days.

When Glacier first launched I looked at pricing, and it was going to cost a lot to restore from backup if needed. But after your comment I checked the pricing again, and you're right - it's very much cheaper now that it used to be!

it is absolutely in alpha stage, and yes please use it as a toy and have fun

in the future my plan is to do 5€/m for 1TB which is pretty much glacier price

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