This means you must provision, setup, and pay (the storage provider) for whatever storage locations you want to use before you create a repository for that storage location in Kopia. Kopia plays no role in selecting your storage locations.

PRO TIP: You pick the storage locations you want to use. Kopia supports all of the following storage locations: It feels more like winning at bingo.Kopia allows you to save your encrypted backups (which are called snapshots in Kopia) to a variety of storage locations, and in Kopia a storage location is called a repository. Will see how it goes.Ĭonclusion: Glacier is really cold and does not give me any kind of warm fuzzy secure feeling. I am now restoring just a small ammount of data, just as a test. My DS1821 arrived and the migration was successful, thank God. I eventually found my 'backup data' but realized really quick that it was unusable outside of a Synology running Glacier. Using the AWS web console to even confirm that somewhere in the spaghetti of features AWS offers, I indeed have 'some data' stored - it was like ice skating in the dark up a hill.Įventually I found a free tool called.Fast Glacier that took me another day or so to figure out how to use to access my stored data. It took days to arrive so meanwhile I looked to see what my Glacier backups meant. I ordered a DS1821 to replace the 1813 and hoped/prayed thst I should be able to migrate my 8 drives to it. As you said, really cheap long term storage. I have been doing Glacier backups from it for many years now but never had to restore from there. I recently had a ten years old DS1813+ die on me, and I definitely freaked out as I had 8 HDD almost full worth of data on it.

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