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Amazon S3 Glacier vs. Mirror Backup

Overview
ProductRatingMost Used ByProduct SummaryStarting Price
Amazon S3 Glacier
Score 9.1 out of 10
N/A
The Amazon S3 Glacier storage classes are purpose-built for data archiving, providing a low cost archive storage in the cloud. According to AWS, S3 Glacier storage classes provide virtually unlimited scalability and are designed for 99.999999999% (11 nines) of data durability, and they provide fast access to archive data and low cost.
$0
Per GB Per Month
Mirror Backup
Score 6.0 out of 10
N/A
Mirror Backup protects users from data loss by continuously monitoring files and folders, and backing them up to the cloud, a network share, or local drive when they change. It does this in a background service that does not require a user to be logged in - presented as ideal for company servers. It can also keep incremental backups, for when users want a history of each file's changes. The vendor states this design is more desirable than whole-disk backups for some situations. And if the…
$3
per month
Pricing
Amazon S3 GlacierMirror Backup
Editions & Modules
Bulk Retrieval Pricing
$0.0025
Per GB Per Month
Storage Pricing
$0.004
Per GB Per Month
Retrieval Pricing
$0.01
Per GB Per Month
Expedited Retrieval Pricing
$0.03
Per GB Per Month
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Offerings
Pricing Offerings
Amazon S3 GlacierMirror Backup
Free Trial
YesYes
Free/Freemium Version
NoNo
Premium Consulting/Integration Services
NoYes
Entry-level Setup FeeNo setup feeOptional
Additional Details—24/7 file protection is available for as little as $0.80 per month. This rate is for a yearly subscription of 30+ seats. The most expensive option, 1 seat/monthly, is $3 per month. Mirror Backup will work with any existing cloud, or local storage can be used.
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User Ratings
Amazon S3 GlacierMirror Backup
Likelihood to Recommend
9.0
(8 ratings)
-
(0 ratings)
Usability
6.0
(1 ratings)
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(0 ratings)
User Testimonials
Amazon S3 GlacierMirror Backup
Likelihood to Recommend
Amazon AWS
If your organization has a lot of archival data that it needs to be backed up for safekeeping, where it won't be touched except in a dire emergency, Amazon Glacier is perfect. In our case, we had a client that generates many TB of video and photo data at annual events and wanted to retain ALL of it, pre- and post- edit for potential use in a future museum. Using the Snowball device, we were able to move hundreds of TB of existing media data that was previously housed on multiple Thunderbolt drives, external RAIDs, etc, in an organized manner, to Amazon Glacier. Then, we were able to setup CloudBerry Backup on their production computers to continually backup any new media that they generated during their annual events.
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Patrick Plaisance
CTO (Chief Technical Officer)
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Gammadyne Corporation
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Pros
Amazon AWS
  • Cheap storage of backup data.
  • Can be used as a part of the entire suite of tools from Amazon, without requiring you to leave the familiar stack.
Rytis Slatkevičius | TrustRadius Reviewer
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Gammadyne Corporation
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Cons
Amazon AWS
  • Sometime due to slow drives there are operation failure noticed by us in testing
  • Cost of restoring data is high and if you have regular restoring them it is not good option and slow as well.
  • While we were setting up the system we took some support from AWS and in many cases their answers were not up to the mark.
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Anonymous
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Gammadyne Corporation
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Usability
Amazon AWS
It is difficult to delete the data as you have to wait for inventory and then bucket modification has to expire.
Rytis Slatkevičius | TrustRadius Reviewer
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Gammadyne Corporation
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Alternatives Considered
Amazon AWS
Since the rest of our infrastructure is in Amazon AWS, coding for sending data to Glacier just makes sense. The others are great as well, for their specific needs and uses, but having *another* third-party software to manage, be billed for, and learn/utilize can be costly in money and time.
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Anonymous
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Gammadyne Corporation
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Return on Investment
Amazon AWS
  • We seldom need to access our data in Glacier; this means that it is a fraction of the cost of S3, including the infrequent-access storage class.
  • Transitioning data to Glacier is managed by AWS. We don't need our engineers to build or maintain log pipelines.
  • Configuring lifecycle policies for S3 and Glacier is simple; it takes our engineers very little time, and there is little risk of errant configuration.
Gavin Hackeling | TrustRadius Reviewer
Gavin Hackeling
Data Scientist
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Gammadyne Corporation
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ScreenShots

Mirror Backup Screenshots

Screenshot of the main window that shows all backup jobs and contains settings for the background service.Screenshot of the window where the settings for a backup job can be edited.Screenshot of the event files, which when missing or damaged, Mirror Backup lets users choose which sets of files need to be restored, and what date and time to roll back to.Screenshot of the progress window for manually triggered backups.