Re: Inherited an 18TB DB & need to backup

[Christophe Pettus]

> On May 15, 2020, at 12:01, Scottix <scot...@gmail.com> wrote:
> 
> Also when you get in the multi TB data storage the bill gets a little harder 
> to digest in S3.

Indeed.  Right now, just buying off of Amazon, a 12TB Seagate IronWolf drive is 
$0.03/GB.  S3 infrequent access is $0.0125/GB/month, so the drive pays for 
itself (storage only) in 2.4 months.  Even with an annualized failure rate of 
1.4% (per Backblaze), and with the required host, rack, etc., etc., it be 
significantly more economical to run your own backup server.  If you regularly 
do restores off of the backups (for example, to prime staging environments or 
developer systems), the outbound transfer can add up fast, too.
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