#Arq backup destinations archive#

Not knowing what objects Arq needs, you end up restoring the whole Arq archive from GLACIER to STANDARD. Problem : Arq's objects do not reflect the structure of the files. One cannot create one file selection for backups and then back this selection up to. Knowing that it will take up to 24h to get there. (2) Arq is very destination centric, rather than source centric. You need first to 'restore' the object from GLACIER to STANDARD storage. Then your own storage lifecycle policy would push the objects in the GLACIER class. It has to go first to the STANDARD class.Īrq would put its army of little objects in the standard bucket. One cannot PUT an object directly in Glacier storage. synology has their own hyperbackup software which supports S3, just don't know how reliable of a program it is Way slower this way but I really like Arq's deduplication/encryption and other features. My plan is to use arq to backup the synology from my mac as the syno is mounted as an SMB drive. Arq 6 onwards changed that new data is created in a unified format.

If you had the wrong format, Arq simply wouldnt work the software assumed every storage location had the proper storage format for its type. For example 3 TBs of data backing up once per week, source includes a mixture of small and large files.Īny ideas what the real cost is? I'm thinking scaleaway glacier is a more cost effective option because of the monthly free transfer and cheaper retrieval fees. Recalling from past posts and tweets: Arq 5 had slightly different storage formats between location services. Backup validation is going to make things costly ĭon't see Arq doing anything wrong here but find it very hard to estimate the true cost of backing up to glacier now.

Backup thinning and related operations are chargeable.

Arq uses loads of small files - lots of requests.

But found out a few things which could increase the costs This needs to be done cheaply so was initially thinking AWS Glacier Deep Archive would make sense at ~1 USD per TB.