Amazon S3 Glacier vs. Mirror Backup

Mirror Backup

Overview
Product	Rating	Most Used By	Product Summary	Starting 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…	N/A

Pricing

Amazon S3 Glacier

Mirror 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 Glacier	Mirror Backup
Free Trial
Yes	Yes
Free/Freemium Version
No	No
Premium Consulting/Integration Services
No	Yes

Entry-level Setup Fee

No setup fee

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Additional Details

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24/7 file protection is available for as little as $1.33 per month. This rate is for a yearly subscription of 30+ seats. The most expensive option, 1 seat/monthly, is $5 per month. Mirror Backup will work with any existing cloud, or local storage can be used.

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Community Pulse
	Amazon S3 Glacier	Mirror Backup
Top Pros	Pro Low cost Pro Storing data Pro Unlimited storage	No answers on this topic
Top Cons	Minus Not cloud Minus 3rd party Minus Billing system	No answers on this topic

Best Alternatives
	Amazon S3 Glacier	Mirror Backup
Small Businesses	Barracuda Essentials Score 9.2 out of 10	Backblaze B2 Cloud Storage Score 9.7 out of 10
Medium-sized Companies	Barracuda Essentials Score 9.2 out of 10	Druva Data Resiliency Cloud Score 9.7 out of 10
Enterprises	Microsoft Exchange Score 8.6 out of 10	Druva Data Resiliency Cloud Score 9.7 out of 10
All Alternatives	View all alternatives	View all alternatives

User Ratings
	Amazon S3 Glacier	Mirror Backup
Likelihood to Recommend	9.0 (8 ratings)	- (0 ratings)
Usability	6.0 (1 ratings)	- (0 ratings)

User Testimonials
	Amazon S3 Glacier	Mirror 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. Incentivized PP Patrick Plaisance CTO (Chief Technical Officer) Read full review	Gammadyne Corporation No answers on this topic
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. Incentivized Rytis Slatkevičius Owner Read full review	Gammadyne Corporation No answers on this topic
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. Incentivized Verified User Anonymous Read full review	Gammadyne Corporation No answers on this topic
Usability	Amazon AWS It is difficult to delete the data as you have to wait for inventory and then bucket modification has to expire. Incentivized Rytis Slatkevičius Owner Read full review	Gammadyne Corporation No answers on this topic
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. Incentivized Verified User Anonymous Read full review	Gammadyne Corporation No answers on this topic
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. Incentivized Gavin Hackeling Data Scientist Read full review	Gammadyne Corporation No answers on this topic
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