

At first appearance it seems like you need a backup client like FastGlacier ($30 Windows), Arq ($40 Mac), or SAGU (Free Windows/Mac).

Starting out with Amazon Glacier can be a little daunting. There is a fee to retrieve your files on Amazon Glacier, and it's not fast, so this is an emergency backup only: not a fancy sharing and syncing service like dropbox or google drive. This is perfect for my photos: I want a place to keep them off-site incase my house burns down or is robbed, or my laptop gets smashed. Enter Amazon Glacier, a $0.01/GB cloud storage solution that assumes you don't need regular access to your files. Photos: Amazon S3 Glacier BackupĪ big chunk of my data in dropbox was photos: precious memories that must be backed up.

(really 140, because they double your free-space with a pro account). One of the things I decided to drop was my subscription to Dropbox Pro, costing me $99/yr for 100 GB. Recently I've started auditing my tech spending to save some money.
