Thanks David,

Looks like I've bee caught out a bit with this upload request thing. Wasabi looks really good, but no DCs in the EU at the moment. I think I'll stick with S3 for now, and look at moving perhaps in the new year.

Thanks again for your help.

Hi David

Thank you.

Yes I am backing up to S3 Standard and the Lifecycle Policy is set to archive to Glacier after 7 days.

* I have the default retention policy set - I will check what these are and set to keep for 90 days if that's not already set.
* I haven't performed any restores. The backups are a secondary backup for us, which we tend to use perhaps once or twice a year. I'm not expecting to need to restore anything major.
* I've just checked and I had not realised that I would be charged for UPLOAD REQUESTS which seems to be one request per object. I am backing up millions of objects. I'm still counting, but it seems I have about 26 backup sets at the moment with an average of half a million objects each :-( I guess that is where my bill is coming from.

As above I hope not to need to use the data, and I will probably put in my terms and conditions that restores will be chargeable.

I'll add together all of my backup objects now and see if I can calculate what my final bill will be for upload requests.

I will probably also set my scheduled full back-ups to be run annually, and I think there is an option in the latest version to compare full backups rather than just sending the full backup.

I'd be grateful for any further advice.

Thanks again