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I'm interested in the service as a consumer. I keep backups of my important files in my apartment, so I consider data loss a very rare but catastrophic event. Glacier is a reasonably priced insurance for my important files.


Exactly, me too. I have multiple backups of my image and video files in my home (~250 Go, growing fast), and I rotate the disks in a vault in the basement. It's very very unlikely that I will lose any file, but it can happen if my whole house burns down or gets robbed (vault included). Glacier is relevant in that case for me as a consumer.


Exactly, I am considering this for backup in case of any sort of catastrophic event. Fire, robbery, etc. Events where a bit of money for data retrieval will really be the least of my worries that day (Might it even be possible to get homeowners/renters insurance to cover retrieval costs? Something to consider maybe.)


This is exactly my use case, and I've written glacier-cli to integrate with git-annex in order to fulfil it.




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