Anyone using Oracle Cloud Archive storage?

[fronesis47]

@leijurv

Takes about an hour or two to restore

Do you just run a restic restore command and it sits for a couple of hours?

OR, is there something you need to do on the Oracle Cloud backend first, then wait to run the restore?

[MichaelEischer]

Depending on how/whether the oracle cloud archive storage is usable via the S3 interface, you could also take a look at feat(backends/s3): add warmup support before repacks and restores by gilbsgilbs · Pull Request #5173 · restic/restic · GitHub which is included in restic 0.18.0.

[leijurv]

I have only ever tried it through the Oracle Cloud website. MichaelEischer’s suggestion is good if you want to automate it.

[mbrijun]

@leijurv

The pricing of $2.6 per terabyte per month is real. They have not charged me for any restores/retrievals. First 10 terabytes egress per month is free, I can confirm, after that $8.5/tb but I have never actually hit this.

Thank you for confirming this. It is good to know that the marketing matches the reality.

@leijurv

Every so often, I try restoring a file and downloading it, and it works fine. Takes about an hour or two to restore.

Would you mind elaborating on this part, as this is my only remaining concern with regards to the OCI Archive storage? From what I have seen, each archived file has to be manually selected and marked for restoration. A typical restic backup, especially a terrabyte-sized one, will have tens of thousands of files. Scripting may help, using the OCI command line tool. However, it is still not clear to me how to “glue” it all together for a complete restore. To clarify, I was using rclone to upload a restic backup from my hard drive to OCI.

Thank you in advance.

[leijurv]

Like I said above, I have only ever tried to restore through their website. Yes, I do have tens of thousands of files backed up. If I needed to do a full restore, I would need some kind of script to restore in bulk yes. I don’t have such a script currently.