@nitinkhanna Since you're paying for another copy of the file, yes: extra storage.
// @kdfrawg
@nitinkhanna it's a shame. That said, the same thing that enables that creativity also enables hackers to do nefarious things.
@kdfrawg As with anything Amazon, S3 (Glacier) is "do it yourself." It's basically meant for data that doesn't change often and doesn't necessarily need to be accessed regularly. The pricing is designed to reflect this use case.
When you request a restore of specific files, they are not immediately available. Amazon will copy the files over to a regular S3 bucket in several hours. Then you can copy the data wherever it needs to go.
// @nitinkhanna
@kdfrawg The other thing you get with S3 Glacier (which I should enable now that I think about it) is file revisions. Really important if you get hit with something like ransomware which encrypts ALL your files.
// @nitinkhanna
@nitinkhanna there's two sides to that coin:
- Jailbreaks are harder to come by these days as the OS has gotten significantly more secure
- Apple added most of the reasons for jailbreaking to iOS directly, making the motivation small
The only I reason I did it back in the day was to unlock my iPhone 3GS, this being before Apple and AT&T offered the capability. Because I used a modified iPad bootloader to do it, it made my phone painful to upgrade for almost two years.
@nitinkhanna I'm using Cloudberry to do it, which also encrypts the data locally with a key I specify before uploading it. I also have it make a local copy to a SMB share.
@nitinkhanna I'm using S3 Glacier for my wife's backups, which ends up being fairly cheap.