Deduplication isn't necessarily a deal breaker. Let's see.
My main machine is currently storing 1.6 TB (compressed) of total archives with tarsnap, but only 33 GB (compressed) of unique data within those archives. So if S3 is 50x cheaper, then not having deduplication would be a wash.
However other comments here suggest that S3 is only 10x cheaper.
My main machine is currently storing 1.6 TB (compressed) of total archives with tarsnap, but only 33 GB (compressed) of unique data within those archives. So if S3 is 50x cheaper, then not having deduplication would be a wash.
However other comments here suggest that S3 is only 10x cheaper.