Amazon Glacier vs runrestic: What are the differences?

What is Amazon Glacier? Low-cost storage service that provides secure and durable storage for data archiving and backup. In order to keep costs low, Amazon Glacier is optimized for data that is infrequently accessed and for which retrieval times of several hours are suitable. With Amazon Glacier, customers can reliably store large or small amounts of data for as little as $0.01 per gigabyte per month, a significant savings compared to on-premises solutions.

What is runrestic? A wrapper script for Restic backup software that inits, creates, prunes and checks backups. It is a simple Python wrapper script for the Restic backup software that initiates a backup, prunes any old backups according to a retention policy, and validates backups for consistency. The script supports specifying your settings in a declarative configuration file rather than having to put them all on the command-line, and handles common errors.

Amazon Glacier and runrestic can be categorized as "Data Backup" tools.

Some of the features offered by Amazon Glacier are:

• Low cost – Amazon Glacier is an extremely low-cost, pay-as-you-go storage service that can cost as little as $0.01 per gigabyte per month.
• You store data in Amazon Glacier as archives. An archive can represent a single file or you may choose to combine several files to be uploaded as a single archive. Retrieving archives from Amazon Glacier requires the initiation of a job. Jobs typically complete in 3 to 5 hours. You organize your archives in vaults.
• Secure – Amazon Glacier supports secure transfer of your data over Secure Sockets Layer (SSL) and automatically stores data encrypted at rest using Advanced Encryption Standard (AES) 256, a secure symmetric-key encryption standard using 256-bit encryption keys.

On the other hand, runrestic provides the following key features:

• Initiates a backup
• Prunes any old backups according to a retention policy
• Validates backups for consistency

runrestic is an open source tool with 23 GitHub stars and 7 GitHub forks. Here's a link to runrestic's open source repository on GitHub.