Thanks, I missed the part about DuraCloud as an abstraction layer. I might look into hosting an install of it on the primary server running the digitization platform.

Josh Welker


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From: Code for Libraries [mailto:[log in to unmask]] On Behalf Of Tim Donohue
Sent: Friday, January 11, 2013 12:39 PM
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Subject: Re: [CODE4LIB] Digital collection backups

Hi all,

Just wanted to add some additional details about DuraCloud (mentioned earlier in this thread), in case it is of interest to anyone.

DuraCloud essentially provides an "abstraction layer" (as previously
mentioned) above several cloud storage providers.  DuraCloud also provides additional preservation services to help manage your content in the cloud (e.g. integrity checks, replication across several storage providers, migration between storage providers, various health/status reports).

The currently supported cloud storage providers include:
- Amazon S3
- Rackspace
- SDSC

There's several other cloud storage providers which are "beta-level" or in development. These include:
- Amazon Glacier (in development)
- Chronopolis (in development)
- Azure (beta)
- iRODS (beta)
- HP Cloud (beta)

DuraCloud is open source (so you could run it on your own server), but it is also offered as a hosted service (through DuraSpace, my employer). 
You can also try out the hosted service for free for two months.

For much more info, see:
- http://www.duracloud.org
- Pricing for hosted service: http://duracloud.org/content/pricing
    * The pricing has dropped recently to reflect market changes
- More technical info / documentation: 
https://wiki.duraspace.org/display/DURACLOUD/DuraCloud

If it's of interest, I can put folks in touch with the DuraCloud team for more info (or you can email [log in to unmask]).

- Tim

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Tim Donohue
Technical Lead for DSpace Project
DuraSpace.org