Amazon CloudDrive: not a fact that you can download back
Hello everyone,
For my home archive (photos, videos, old projects) with a volume of about 5 + Tb I was looking for cloud backup solutions.
Since I am a programmer, I have corresponding requirements.
I researched a lot, in fact, everything that is on the top-end market, 10-15 products. In reality, two decisions fell under my requirements:
I used CrashPlan for about a year. Now I tried to switch to Amazon CloudDrive.
You may be interested in first-hand comparisons and impressions before I get to the fun part.
CrashPlan:
Of course, I talked with support, looked at the JVM parameters (it is in Java), but in the end there is such a picture. In general, it works, and at a price ok, but not perfect, yes.
Amazon CloudDrive, on the other hand, came up with a lot more looks:
A familiar admin recommended. I like it.
The problem got out later, when I decided to try to download files from it. Two archives did not swing (and still does not swing, error 500).
Support slowly responds to requests, at the moment, correspondence with him has been going on for about a month. Actually, I wait, wait, and then I ask - is there anything else needed? I am politely asked to try again, which I do.
Of course, I sent the support all the data, including screenshots, a HAR archive with communication through the browser (all request-response sessions from their website) and the rest that I could think of.
De facto, you don’t have to download files uploaded to Amazon CloudDrive.
At the moment, CrashPlan is still working for me, but I'm really surprised about Amazon. It would seem - getting uploaded files is Top Priority Bug, really TOP ... I have not encountered such bugs and such lack of reaction to any of the other cloud services that I worked with.
[there should be a picture, but I could not find a cat with such a degree of astonishment]
Usually I do not spend my time describing such problems, but here, perhaps, such knowledge will save someone decently nerves and time.
For my home archive (photos, videos, old projects) with a volume of about 5 + Tb I was looking for cloud backup solutions.
Since I am a programmer, I have corresponding requirements.
- Mac, Linux, in my case, these are the main OS.
- Good download speed (I have fast internet).
- An API is desirable.
- Reasonable rates for archives of large size, and preferably unlimited.
I researched a lot, in fact, everything that is on the top-end market, 10-15 products. In reality, two decisions fell under my requirements:
I used CrashPlan for about a year. Now I tried to switch to Amazon CloudDrive.
You may be interested in first-hand comparisons and impressions before I get to the fun part.
CrashPlan:
- The speed from me is about 2.2 Mbytes / sec (channel about 10MBytes / sec) per CrashPlan, but if there are several installations, then it can be faster (there will be several connections).
- You can run it on a Linux server and connect remotely, without having to raise the GUI on that server.
- He constantly eats a lot of CPU, on my archive 5Tb give stable 100% Pentium G2020T @ 2.50GHz (I have an HP Gen8 server).
- Eats a lot of memory, developers recommend 1Gb on 1Tb of archive, I gave 6Gb.
Of course, I talked with support, looked at the JVM parameters (it is in Java), but in the end there is such a picture. In general, it works, and at a price ok, but not perfect, yes.
Amazon CloudDrive, on the other hand, came up with a lot more looks:
- It is multithreaded, eating up to 100% of my channel, which is what I wanted.
- The Python API is working (acd_cli), as is the client for Mac.
- CPU / Memory eats at times less, it is reasonable for this kind of software.
- The limitation of files is something like 50GB, fat archives have to be beaten on volumes.
A familiar admin recommended. I like it.
The problem got out later, when I decided to try to download files from it. Two archives did not swing (and still does not swing, error 500).
Support slowly responds to requests, at the moment, correspondence with him has been going on for about a month. Actually, I wait, wait, and then I ask - is there anything else needed? I am politely asked to try again, which I do.
Of course, I sent the support all the data, including screenshots, a HAR archive with communication through the browser (all request-response sessions from their website) and the rest that I could think of.
De facto, you don’t have to download files uploaded to Amazon CloudDrive.
At the moment, CrashPlan is still working for me, but I'm really surprised about Amazon. It would seem - getting uploaded files is Top Priority Bug, really TOP ... I have not encountered such bugs and such lack of reaction to any of the other cloud services that I worked with.
[there should be a picture, but I could not find a cat with such a degree of astonishment]
Usually I do not spend my time describing such problems, but here, perhaps, such knowledge will save someone decently nerves and time.