Hi DO!
So I've been using Spaces for a couple of months now, originally as part of your Hatch program beta. We will be using Spaces on our platform to provide high quality, licensed music downloads for creatives. This means our buckets will grow quite large with a typical download being > 50MB. It seems that Spaces can scale with us on this requirement but I was wondering about what would be the most cost effective backup solution.
Sure I could just duplicate the entire bucket in another region but that could get quite expensive. With knowledge of services out there like Amazon Glacier what is your suggestion for backup solutions now, and in the future?
Tim
Jack of all tech trades, master of some
Jason Lane
Hi Tim, I think you're asking if you should Backup Spaces?
Spaces is actually designed for high durability and uses a common data protection technique called erasure coding to distribute your data across multiple nodes in a Spaces cluster.
Erasure coding protects your data against loss even if multiple nodes in the storage cluster become unavailable.
So, with this architecture, there is actually no reason to backup your Space unless you wanted cross data center redundancy.