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Josh, Totally understand the resource constraints and the price comparison up-front. As Roy alluded to earlier, it pays with Glacier to envision what your content retrieval scenarios might be, because that $368 up-front could very easily balloon in situations where you are needing to restore a collection(s) en-masse at a later date. Amazon Glacier as a service makes their money on that end. In MetaArchive there is currently no charge for collection retrieval for the sake of a restoration. You are also subject and powerless over the long-term to Amazon's price hikes with Glacier. Because we are a Cooperative, our members collaboratively work together annually to determine technology preferences, vendors, pricing, cost control, etc. You have a direct seat at the table to help steer the solution in your direction. On Fri, Jan 11, 2013 at 10:09 AM, Joshua Welker <[log in to unmask]> wrote: > Matt, > > I appreciate the information. At that price, it looks like MetaArchive > would be a better option than most of the other services mentioned in this > thread. At this point, I think it is going to come down to a LOCKSS > solution such as what MetaArchive provides or Amazon Glacier. We anticipate > our digital collection growing to about 3TB in the first two years. With > Glacier, that would be $368 per year vs $3,072 per year for MetaArchive and > LOCKSS. As much as I would like to support library initiatives like LOCKSS, > we are a small institution with a very small budget, and the pricing of > Glacier is starting to look too good to pass up. > > Josh Welker > > > -----Original Message----- > From: Code for Libraries [mailto:[log in to unmask]] On Behalf Of > Matt Schultz > Sent: Friday, January 11, 2013 8:49 AM > To: [log in to unmask] > Subject: Re: [CODE4LIB] Digital collection backups > > Hi Josh, > > Glad you are looking into LOCKSS as a potential solution for your needs > and that you are thinking beyond simple backup solutions for more long-term > preservation. Here at MetaArchive Cooperative we make use of LOCKSS to > preserve a range of content/collections from our member institutions. > > The nice thing (I think) about our approach and our use of LOCKSS as an > embedded technology is that you as an institution retain full control over > your collections in the preservation network and get to play an active and > on-going part in their preservation treatment over time. Storage costs in > MetaArchive are competitive ($1/GB/year), and with that you get up to 7 > geographic replications. MetaArchive is international at this point and so > your collections really do achieve some safe distance from any disasters > that may hit close to home. > > I'd be more than happy to talk with you further about your collection > needs, why we like LOCKSS, and any interest your institution may have in > being part of a collaborative approach to preserving your content above and > beyond simple backup. Feel free to contact me directly. > > Matt Schultz > Program Manager > Educopia Institute, MetaArchive Cooperative http://www.metaarchive.org > [log in to unmask] > 616-566-3204 > > On Thu, Jan 10, 2013 at 5:20 PM, Joshua Welker <[log in to unmask]> wrote: > > > Hi everyone, > > > > We are starting a digitization project for some of our special > > collections, and we are having a hard time setting up a backup system > > that meets the long-term preservation needs of digital archives. The > > backup mechanisms currently used by campus IT are short-term full-server > backups. > > What we are looking for is more granular, file-level backup over the > > very long term. Does anyone have any recommendations of software or > > some service or technique? We are looking into LOCKSS but haven't dug > too deeply yet. > > Can anyone who uses LOCKSS tell me a bit of their experiences with it? > > > > Josh Welker > > Electronic/Media Services Librarian > > College Liaison > > University Libraries > > Southwest Baptist University > > 417.328.1624 > > > > > > -- > Matt Schultz > Program Manager > Educopia Institute, MetaArchive Cooperative http://www.metaarchive.org > [log in to unmask] > 616-566-3204 > -- Matt Schultz Program Manager Educopia Institute, MetaArchive Cooperative http://www.metaarchive.org [log in to unmask] 616-566-3204