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Amazon Glacier is a low-cost storage service that provides secure and durable storage for data archiving and backup.

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Tool to compute SHA256 Tree Hash

I've started using AWS Glacier, and noticed that it hashes the files using an algorithm called SHA-256 Tree Hash. To my surprise, this algorithm is different from SHA-256, so I can't use the tools I'm used to, to compare hashes and verify file…
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Rename file in Amazon Glacier

Is it possible to rename an archive in Amazon Glacier? The documentation says: After you upload an archive, you cannot update its content or its description. The only way you can update the archive content or its description is by deleting the…
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General Advice about an archive solution. ~15tb and growing.

I need a better storage and archive system for my small business's files. Specifically the files are completed video projects. Beyond time and cost limitations what is holding me back is I don't believe in any of the solutions I have pondered.…
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How to backup a s3 bucket to the glacier?

I'm having some difficulty setting up my S3 to make an automatic backup to Glacier. That is, I want a copy of my s3 on the glacier every day. How to do this?
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How to generate Amazon Glacier SHA-256 Tree Hash for a file locally?

To verify my files have uploaded correctly, is there a tool to generate the Amazon Glacier Tree Hash SHA-256 for files locally?
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Server incremental backup to AWS Glacier

I'm looking to backup various directories and files from a Linux server to AWS Glacier. I'm trying to work out the details on how to do manage this. Incremental Backups I want to upload files incrementally. So essentially, if a file hasn't changed,…
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Move data from Glacier vault to Glacier Deep Archive

I have a few Glacier data vaults with data in them. I would like to move that data to new a storage class - the "Glacier Deep Archive" ones. How to do that? I cannot see such an option in the console in vault preferences.
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AWS Cost for Uploading to S3 and immediately transitioning to glacier

I have a client uploading multiple TB of data to Glacier. They did a snowball that got 65 TB of data, and they are going to do the remaining ~25 via upload. Currently they are uploading directly to Glacier with FastGlacier, but that tool is running…
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Amazon S3 to Glacier with Lifecycle - No Glacier Available

I have an Amazon S3 bucket that I wish to transfer to Amazon Glacier. I have created a Glacier vault with open permissions. When I try to create a life cycle rule to transfer to Glacier, nothing comes up (see pic). What am I missing? I have…
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Simple S3 -> Glacier Backup

I'm looking to backup a few terabytes of data in our S3 buckets to Amazon Glacier. I've seen the options for "automatic archival" of S3 -> Glacier, but I'd rather it just be a simple one time dump (and the files can't be removed from S3). Looking…
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What is data transfer out in Amazon Glacier

In Amazon calculator for Glacier there's a section of data transfer out. When does this fee applies? I understand that data transfer out relating to EC2 means the bandwidth of data that people will download from my server on EC2. But what does it…
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How correctly and cost effective to store EC2 instance backups

How correctly and cost effective to store EC2 instance backups? I have a scenario like: Create EC2-instance snapshot. Move it to S3 bucket. Move it from S3 bucket to Glacier Done It is correctly solution or I can do it somehow with Storage…
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How do I order a retrieval drive from AWS Glacier?

I have 3.5TB of data (file backups) in AWS Glacier. I would like AWS to ship me a retrieval drive/appliance with this data because I don't think the download would successfully complete. I attempted to do this with Snowball but couldn't because…
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Amazon Glacier Job Inventory Download Not Available

I run the following through the AWS CLI interface. aws glacier list-jobs --account-id=xxxxx --vault-name=MyVault And I get a list of jobs I have requested for Glacier. I currently have a Vault Inventory job that is Complete. I then run this, to get…
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AWS Glacier inventory is either wrong or asynchronous?

Using Boto3, I uploaded 12 files to Amazon's Glacier last night at 21:43 EST. I received ArchiveID's for all 12 files, so I assume they uploaded correctly. According the the AWS management console, the most recent inventory was run at 02:53 EST…
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