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Date: Tue, 04 Sep 2012 08:20:27 -0700
From: Rob & Jenny <gfxguy74@gmail.com>
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Ooh, glad to be wrong about that. To answer an earlier question I had, 
it looks like Amazon provides a couple of applications (most likely web) 
to access and use the Glacier. I believe that they call it AWS (Amazon 
Web Services).

I think for dropbox "cloud" purposes they have Amazon S3 services which 
seems pretty interesting but I have no experience using it. What I have 
had good experience using is Microsoft's SkyDrive. $10 for 20GB per year 
(you get 7GB free with a hotmail/windows live account). Dropbox has come 
in handy too but can get pricey. However you look at it, lots of good 
options out there.

I've taken to using BlueRay for general archival but I think glacier 
would come in handy for those projects you absolutely need to revisit later.

     -Rob

On 9/3/2012 11:39 PM, Jim Tierney wrote:
>>> I think I read it was between 1-2 weeks before you get it.
> Nope... This is from the Getting Started section:
>
> "Retrieving archives from Amazon Glacier requires the initiation of a job.
> Jobs typically complete in 3 to 5 hours."
>
> Probably acceptable download times for the vast majority of archived
> material.
>
>
> Cheers,
> Jim
> ---------------
> Jim Tierney
> President
> Digital Anarchy
>
>