
Glacier isn’t made for this, and it never lets you forget that. I used Arq with Glacier for months, but I wouldn’t recommend it. On the special bulk Glacier service, 1 TB is only $10/month, but Glacier is extremely clunky - simple operations can take hours or days to complete. The Reduced Redundancy option brings it down to $24/month, but that’s still significant.

Arq to S3 or GlacierĪrq runs on a Mac, not on the Synology itself, and can back up any mounted file shares to Amazon S3 or Glacier.Īrq works well, but S3’s pricing can get prohibitive: priced per gigabyte, a 1 TB collection costs $30/month to host. I’ve greatly enjoyed my Synology NAS, the DS1813+, 1 for over a year, but I hadn’t found a good cloud-backup solution until now.

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