Amazon Glacier Backup: dt-s3-backup?

[webmanoffesto]

I want to backup my data to Amazon Glacier. t's much cheaper than SpiderOak. I found a BASH script that may gather all the files which need to be backed up and encrypt them before sending them to Glacier. But as a non-programmer it's hard for me to evaluate the script.
Please look at the script below and tell me if it seems good, or if you can recommend something better.
https://github.com/thornomad/dt-s3-backup/blob/master/README
https://github.com/thornomad/dt-s3-backup

 

[ajgyomber]

Why don't you just purchased CloudBerry Backup?

http://www.cloudberrylab.com/cloud-backup-windows-desktop.aspx

 

[NJW]

Please look at the script below and tell me if it seems good

I think that script only supports S3, not Glacier directly. So you would have to transfer to S3 first, then move from S3 to Glacier. And good luck with calculating how much it would cost (in time and $) for retrieval.

AFAICS, Glacier is only useful for just-in-case backups that you will never foreseeably need to restore. It's cheap for a reason.

 

[Instant Housecall - Corey]

Typically you'd back up your more recent stuff to S3, then S3 has an automatic "move to Glacier after x days" option in it. That way you newer stuff is easily accessible, but if there was some nastiness that found its way in the system from 100 days ago, you can get the 100-day old backup from Glacier.

I don't think it costs much to transfer between S3 and Glacier. Glacier restores aren't as slow as they advertise.