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Glacier command line utility was renamed from glacier to glacier-cmd, because of inconsistencies with boto.

Renamed configuration file from .glacier to .glacier-cmd to reflect new name of this utility.

Command line parameter description changed from positional argument to optional argument. This means from now on you must add --description <description> on the command line to give a description. This to allow for multiple file names and wild cards to be used in conjunction with the upload subcommand.

For everybody having problems with install, don't forget to install git.

Amazon Glacier CLI

Command line interface for Amazon Glacier. Allows managing vaults, uploading and downloading archives and bookkeeping of created archives.

Installation:

Required libraries are glaciercorecalls and boto, use version 2.6.0 or newer.

You also need to install GIT, with something like apt-get install git to download sources from github.

>>> python setup.py install
>>> glacier-cmd [args] 

Development:

Currently use of virtualenv is recommended, but we will migrate to buildout shortly:

>>> virtualenv --no-site-packages --python=python2.7 amazon-glacier-cmd-interface
>>> source amazon-glacier-cmd-interface/bin/activate
>>> python setup.py develop
>>> glacier-cmd command [args]

Usage:

There are a couple of ways to pass in settings. While you can pass in everything on command line you can also create a config file .glacier-cmd in your home folder or in folder where you run glacier (current working directory) or a global configuration file called /etc/glacier-cmd.conf. To specify special location of your config file use -c option on command line.

Here is an example configuration:

[aws]
access_key=your_access_key
secret_key=your_secret_key

[sdb]
access_key=your_sdb_access_key
secret_key=your_sdb_secret_key
region=us-west-1

[glacier]
region=us-east-1
bookkeeping=True
bookkeeping-domain-name=your_simple_db_domain_name
logfile=~/.glacier-cmd.log
loglevel=INFO
output=print

You can also pass in all these options as environment variables:

$ aws_access_key=your_access_key aws_secret_key=your_secret_key region=us-east-1 bookkeeping=True bookkeeping-domain-name=your_simple_db_domain_name glacier [args]

It does not matter if option names are upper-case or lower-case or if they have aws_ in string. Currently only section names must be lower-case.

We created a special feature called bookkeeping, where we keep a cache of all uploaded archive and their names, hashes, sizes and similar meta-data in an Amazon SimpleDB. This is still work in progress and can be enabled by setting bookkeeping to True. Some commands like search require bookkeeping to be enabled. You will also have to set bookkeeping-domain-name:

$ TODO: example here

To list your vault contents use lsvault, to create vault use mkvault and to remove use rmvault obvious:

$ glacier-cmd mkvault Test
201 Created
/487528549940/vaults/Test

$ glacier-cmd lsvault
200 OK
+------------+----------------------------------------------------+--------------------------+----------+
| Vault name |                        ARN                         |         Created          |   Size   |
+------------+----------------------------------------------------+--------------------------+----------+
|    Test    | arn:aws:glacier:us-east-1:771747372727:vaults/Test | 2012-08-30T03:26:05.507Z | 56932337 |
+------------+----------------------------------------------------+--------------------------+----------+


$ glacier-cmd rmvault Test
204 No Content
+------------------+-------------------------------------------------+
|      Header      |                      Value                      |
+------------------+-------------------------------------------------+
| x-amzn-requestid | 5Ckitc3kUKC30UWrflkKNLK_hJFm1c_Y7lm4ZG2MAkcInI8 |
|       date       |          Wed, 12 Sep 2012 05:51:00 GMT          |
+------------------+-------------------------------------------------+

You can list active jobs by using listjobs:

$ glacier-cmd listjobs Test
200 OK
+--------------------+------------+-----------+--------------------------+----------------------------------------------------+----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------+
|       Action       | Archive ID |   Status  |        Initiated         |                      VaultARN                      |                                            Job ID                                            |
+--------------------+------------+-----------+--------------------------+----------------------------------------------------+----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------+
| InventoryRetrieval |    None    | Succeeded | 2012-09-12T01:03:13.991Z | arn:aws:glacier:us-east-1:771747372727:vaults/Test | tOMuoC8Y0B9S867fZsczjZBUS02mnELuS1-WqTY_SCCnNPWQg85YRI3GoJe6eObGuPEBdRz6BeXb35PQWBokHBhPqZ0X |
| InventoryRetrieval |    None    | Succeeded | 2012-09-11T06:37:22.950Z | arn:aws:glacier:us-east-1:771747372727:vaults/Test | TK27LnflXEXN9ACn-ShfvQXHnJxFRVWnwnPiR-2d0eyePFHs_xrFRkAq1TEgxzM1oWo06tTUPbtGCnHmiL7Hon9anlik |
+--------------------+------------+-----------+--------------------------+----------------------------------------------------+----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------+

To upload archive use upload. You can upload data from file or data from stdin. To upload from file:

$ glacier-cmd upload Test /path/SomeFile --description "The file description"
Created archive with ID: EQocIYw9ZmofbWixjD2oKb8faeIg4D1uSi1PxpdyBVy__lDMCWcmXLIzNKBP4ikPH3Ngn4w8ApqCMN7XJqNL7V4sxRzq42Zu74DctpLG9GSPSNjLc1_vorGVk3YqVEdjd2cqnWTdiA
Archive SHA256 hash: e837acd31ee9b04a73fb176f1845695364dfabe019fca17f4097cf80687082c0

You can only compare the SHA256 returned by AWS with the locally computed one (using the shasum utility) if your archive was under 1Mb. Use the built-in treehash function instead.

$ glacier-cmd treehash SomeFile
e837acd31ee9b04a73fb176f1845695364dfabe019fca17f4097cf80687082c0  SomeFile

For files larger than 1Mb, a special SHA256 needs to be computed. There are plans to update the tool in the future to compute these special SHA256 values off-line.

If you are uploading a temp file with a meaningless name, or using --stdin, you can use the --name option to tell glacier to ignore the file name and use the given name when it creates the bookkeeping entry:

$ glacier-cmd upload Test /tmp/temp.tQ6948 --description "Some description" --name /path/BetterName

To upload from stdin:

$ cat file | glacier-cmd upload Test --description "Some description" --stdin  --name /path/BetterName

IMPORTANT NOTE: If you're uploading from stdin, and you don't specify a --partsize option, your upload will be limited to 1.3Tb, and the progress report will come out every 128Mb. For more details, run:

$ glacier-cmd upload -h

You have two options to retrieve an archive - first one is download, second one is getarchive

If you use download, you will have to uniquely identify the file either by its file name, its description, or limit the search by region and vault. If that is not enough you should use getarchive and specify the archive ID of the archive you want to retrieve:

$ TODO: example here

To remove uploaded archive use rmarchive. You can currently delete only by archive id (notice the use of -- when the archive ID starts with a dash):

$ glacier-cmd rmarchive Test -- -6AKuLSU3wxtSqq_GeeAss9zLvto8Xr1su4mqmvluTTv4HcXbFJJNy0yiTu9tG5vFjrBXvmQKXGwFJpNMghqYBerUKpsjq56mrzv1wUbe6DWuzl6Ntb8WSQHYo0kzw8rcLaVx5MFug
204 No Content
+------------------+-------------------------------------------------+
|      Header      |                      Value                      |
+------------------+-------------------------------------------------+
| x-amzn-requestid | 1-UC36MM2ZxNwdf-Q2yyT0f7j5KVJ1neGwf-FzsU2H6YDyo |
|       date       |          Fri, 14 Sep 2012 02:48:46 GMT          |
+------------------+-------------------------------------------------+

To search for uploaded archives in your cache use search. This requires bookkeeping enabled:

$ TODO: example here

To list the inventory of a vault use inventory:

$ glacier-cmd inventory Test
Inventory of vault arn:aws:glacier:us-east-1:771747372727:vaults/Test
Inventory Date: 2012-09-11T22:03:37Z

Content:
+---------------------------------------------+----------------------+----------+--------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------+------------------------------------------------------------------+
|             Archive Description             |       Uploaded       |   Size   |                                                                 Archive ID                                                                 |                           SHA256 hash                            |
+---------------------------------------------+----------------------+----------+--------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------+------------------------------------------------------------------+
|                 DSC01600.xcf                | 2012-08-31T03:49:34Z | 38679745 | riTD8lqS96TvEwrqMy79jziF-l0vc_jbhYeCli1qtCAEH4IfzvvIU96VSiSOIytGRKJfw8Pf0SRk5i1ruxIIZuyfH7W7jTEW_h-Zd5Ho6aveZdfW8JfoYXXMRz6Dn_Yg0FsgYCLGQw | cb7ca5b0fa02af0180e0c172489c2f40f3469db2dfc86ae41e713b7bacea68e7 |
|                     2016                    | 2012-09-10T05:09:20Z |  250178  | JZ8Xsys9LnN0djnOaC-5YNQYoKnd2jL0eLp8H3SlMexls0tqLdlvZQGnS56Q3Hb3ahsle7XNKQv5ouZjY2fOu9gI6BRErK8gKHAKxlFtdIeGFD6w_KVElczfehJV4XJIz8zCtGcjsg | d8f50c77cdef296ae57b0a3386e3f3d73435c94f5e6d320d5426bd1b239397d4 |
+---------------------------------------------+----------------------+----------+--------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------+------------------------------------------------------------------+

To describe a vault use describevault. It shows the time of the last inventory among other things:

$ glacier-cmd describevault Test
200 OK
+--------------------------+----------+----------+----------------------------------------------------+--------------------------+
|      LastInventory       | Archives |   Size   |                        ARN                         |         Created          |
+--------------------------+----------+----------+----------------------------------------------------+--------------------------+
| 2012-09-14T20:14:31.609Z |    19    | 44056372 | arn:aws:glacier:us-east-1:771747372727:vaults/Test | 2012-08-30T03:26:05.507Z |
+--------------------------+----------+----------+----------------------------------------------------+--------------------------+

To see the multipart uploads currently in progress, use listmultiparts:

$ glacier-cmd listmultiparts Test
200 OK
Marker:  None
+--------------------+--------------------------+----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------+-----------------+----------------------------------------------------+
| ArchiveDescription |       CreationDate       |                                      MultipartUploadId                                       | PartSizeInBytes |                      VaultARN                      |
+--------------------+--------------------------+----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------+-----------------+----------------------------------------------------+
|  fancyme.glacier   | 2012-09-20T04:29:21.485Z | D18RNXeq5ffV99PITXrHBvJOULDt15EJJl0eBD5GFD-pc76ptWCz0k9mrJy4W4oUu2fQ0ljWxiqDXIKGLZVIfFIexErC |     4194304     | arn:aws:glacier:us-east-1:771747372727:vaults/Test |
+--------------------+--------------------------+----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------+-----------------+----------------------------------------------------+

To abort one of the multipart uploads, use abortmultipart subcommand:

$ glacier-cmd abortmultipart Test D18RNXeq5ffV99PITXrHBvJOULDt15EJJl0eBD5GFD-pc76ptWCz0k9mrJy4W4oUu2fQ0ljWxiqDXIKGLZVIfFIexErC

Usage description(help):

$ glacier-cmd --help
usage: glacier-cmd [-h] [-c FILE] [--logtostdout]
                   [--aws-access-key AWS_ACCESS_KEY]
                   [--aws-secret-key AWS_SECRET_KEY] [--region REGION]
                   [--bookkeeping]
                   [--no-bookkeeping]
                   [--bookkeeping-domain-name BOOKKEEPING_DOMAIN_NAME]
                   [--logfile LOGFILE]
                   [--loglevel {-1,DEBUG,0,INFO,1,WARNING,2,ERROR,3,CRITICAL}]
                   [--output {print,csv,json}]


{mkvault,lsvault,describevault,rmvault,upload,listmultiparts,abortmultipart,inventory,getarchive,download,rmarchive,search,listjobs,describejob,treehash}
                  ...

Command line interface for Amazon Glacier

optional arguments:
 -h, --help            show this help message and exit
 -c FILE, --conf FILE  Name of the file to log messages to. (default:
                       ~/.glacier-cmd)
 --logtostdout         Send log messages to stdout instead of the config
                       file. (default: False)

Subcommands:
  {mkvault,lsvault,describevault,rmvault,upload,listmultiparts,abortmultipart,inventory,getarchive,download,rmarchive,search,listjobs,describejob,treehash}
                       For subcommand help, use: glacier-cmd <subcommand> -h
   mkvault             Create a new vault.
   lsvault             List available vaults.
   describevault       Describe a vault.
   rmvault             Remove a vault.
   upload              Upload an archive to Amazon Glacier.
   listmultiparts      List all active multipart uploads.
   abortmultipart      Abort a multipart upload.
   inventory           List inventory of a vault, if available. If not
                       available, creates inventory retrieval job if none
                       running already.
   getarchive          Requests to make an archive available for download.
   download            Download a file by archive id.
   rmarchive           Remove archive from Amazon Glacier.
   search              Search Amazon SimpleDB database for available archives
                       (requires bookkeeping to be enabled).
   listjobs            List active jobs in a vault.
   describejob         Describe a job.
   treehash            Calculate the tree-hash (Amazon style sha256-hash) of
                       a file.

aws:
 --aws-access-key AWS_ACCESS_KEY
                       Your aws access key (Required if you have not created
                       a ~/.glacier-cmd or /etc/glacier-cmd.conf config file)
                       (default: AKIAIP5VPUSCSJQ6BSSQ)
 --aws-secret-key AWS_SECRET_KEY
                       Your aws secret key (Required if you have not created
                       a ~/.glacier-cmd or /etc/glacier-cmd.conf config file)
                       (default: WDgq6ZZn7Y4Lkt5LxPuionw2pTLbonwdFZz1BGtS)

glacier:
 --region REGION       Region where you want to store your archives (Required
                       if you have not created a ~/.glacier-cmd or /etc
                       /glacier-cmd.conf config file) (default: us-east-1)
 --bookkeeping         Should we keep book of all created archives. This
                       requires a Amazon SimpleDB account and its bookkeeping
                       domain name set (default: True)
 --bookkeeping-domain-name BOOKKEEPING_DOMAIN_NAME
                       Amazon SimpleDB domain name for bookkeeping. (default:
                       squirrel)
 --no-bookkeeping      If present, overrides either CLI or configuration file
                       options provided for bookkeeping either beforehand or 
                       afterwards
 --logfile LOGFILE     File to write log messages to. (default: /home/wouter
                       /.glacier-cmd.log)
 --loglevel {-1,DEBUG,0,INFO,1,WARNING,2,ERROR,3,CRITICAL}
                       Set the lowest level of messages you want to log.
                       (default: DEBUG)
 --output {print,csv,json}
                       Set how to return results: print to the screen, or as
                       csv resp. json string. (default: print)

SimpleDB bookkeeping (custom) domain name

If you don't know how to or don't have utilities to create custom SimpleDB domain, you can use Javascript Scratchpad for Amazon SimpleDB. It should help you create that in no time.

SNS

Short Notification Service (SNS) is Amazon's technology that allows you to be notified when actions are completed. glacier-cmd allows for whatever granularity of control as you desire.

If you run glacier-cmd sns sync without specifing anything in your configuration file, it will automatically subscribe all your vaults to aws-glacier-notifications topic.

$ glacier.py sns sync                                           
+------------+-------------------------------------------------+
| Vault Name |                    Request Id                   |
+------------+-------------------------------------------------+
|  vault1    | r6egKGUGtCPFi0uEQwP9hIcl5TRSr_EhxxogfX56RnN9FxA |
|  vault2    | bXxvIX-gaALibuU7OHOL8OIy1EAPgDDknnswV8DlOsESMAI |
|  vault3    | iJTMya-QvQ5Jf17hMd85vY9qk1q2dNwnR90aS-p5Vwl__PY |
+------------+-------------------------------------------------+

However, if you desire, you can put sections into your settings file to allow for finer control of your notifications.

[SNS:topic1]
method=email,valid.email@address.com;

[SNS:topic2]
vaults=vault1,vault2
method=email,valid.email-1@address.com;email,valid.email-2@address.com

Topic name is specified after SNS:. By default, if you don't specify any vaults, all your vault will be subscribed to that topic.

If you pass in the method argument you will be automatically subscribed to that topic.

After any changes to your .glacier-cmd file you should run glacier-cmd sns sync again.

$ glacier-cmd sns sync
+--------+----------------------+------------+-------------------------------------------------+
| Topic  |   Subscribe Result   | Vault Name |                    Request Id                   |
+--------+----------------------+------------+-------------------------------------------------+
| topic1 | pending confirmation |  vault1    | Ap-i98165PUh8eSnppwdstANnwSkcOe9VAqXEhIyY45ybYc |
|        |                      |  vault2    | QJOigsIM_JPKG1SEhMYmkbxZzxhQ9lkN4HLKLJKuqaKDHg0 |
|        |                      |  vault3    | 5cXDpeL91-ZKNIDKs5nUzqIJ9O1ktujwcPQtQf2tLHmgr54 |
| topic2 | pending confirmation |  vault1    | y8mmcnWrK5R5nQzmz5sxlJKD20DVkyDkUkOywo8p273TUDA |
|        |                      |  vault4    | gvrFKzO7W4Srr8NoLQLnCxuw64vf_7qpLSdAe_6Pon7KqfQ |
+--------+----------------------+------------+-------------------------------------------------+

To get a list of all subscriptions you can run glacier-cmd sns lssub.

$ glacier-cmd sns lssub                                      
+--------------+-----------+----------+-------------------------+-----------------------------------------------------------------------------------+
|  Account #   |  Section  | Protocol |         Endpoint        |                                        ARN                                        |
+--------------+-----------+----------+-------------------------+-----------------------------------------------------------------------------------+
| 123456789101 |   vault1  |  email   | valid.email@address.com |                                PendingConfirmation                                |
| 123456789101 | allvaults |  email   | valid.email@address.com | arn:aws:sns:us-east-1:123456789101:allvaults:xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx                   |
| 123456789101 |  vault2   |  email   | valid.email@address.com |    arn:aws:sns:us-east-1:123456789101:vault2:xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx                   |
| 123456789101 |   bleble  |  email   |     mail@example.com    |   arn:aws:sns:us-east-1:123456789101:bleble:xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx                    |
| 123456789101 |   bleble  |  email   | valid.email@address.com |                                PendingConfirmation                                |
+--------------+-----------+----------+-------------------------+-----------------------------------------------------------------------------------+

To get a list of all topics (including non-glacier-related ones) run glacier-cmd sns lstopic.

$ glacier-cmd sns lstopic
+-------------------------------+------------------------------------------------------------------+
|             Topic             |                            Topic ARN                             |
+-------------------------------+------------------------------------------------------------------+
|   aws-glacier-notifications   |   arn:aws:sns:us-east-1:123456789101:aws-glacier-notifications   |
|            vault2             |             arn:aws:sns:us-east-1:123456789101:vault2            |
|            vault1             |             arn:aws:sns:us-east-1:123456789101:vault1            |
+-------------------------------+------------------------------------------------------------------+

To subscribe to a specific topic, run

$ glacier-cmd sns subscribe protocol endpoint topic
+----------------------+--------------------------------------+
|   SubscribeResult    |              RequestId               |
+----------------------+--------------------------------------+
| pending confirmation | xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx |
+----------------------+--------------------------------------+

You can also pass in the --vault argument which will subscribe all specified vaults (separated by comma) to a specified topic.

$ glacier-cmd sns subscribe email valid.email@address.com topic10 --vault vault1,vault2,vault3
+----------------------+--------------------------------------+
|   SubscribeResult    |              RequestId               |
+----------------------+--------------------------------------+
| pending confirmation | e9a1d360-193c-52e4-89b5-9a78f08252ea |
+----------------------+--------------------------------------+

To unsubscribe, use unsubsribe, which you can limit with --protocol, --endpoint and --topic.

$ glacier-cmd sns unsubscribe --endpoint valid.email@address.com --protocol email --topic vault2
+--------------+---------+----------+-------------------------+-----------------------------------------------------------------------------+
|  Account #   | Section | Protocol |         Endpoint        |                                     ARN                                     |
+--------------+---------+----------+-------------------------+-----------------------------------------------------------------------------+
| 123456789101 |  vault2 |  email   | valid.email@address.com | arn:aws:sns:us-east-1:123456789101:vault2:xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx             |
+--------------+---------+----------+-------------------------+-----------------------------------------------------------------------------+

You have to pass in at least one option. If you pass in only one option, all subscriptions matching that option will be unsubscribed. So if you would pass in --endpoint valid.email@address.com all subscriptions to that address would be unsubscribed.

Bandwidth throttling

glacier-cmd does not by itself support bandwidth throttling and uses all the available bandwidth it can get hold off. Should you require bandwidth throttling you should use a utility designed for such purpose. One such utility is tc. A short example by @gburca:

TC=/sbin/tc
IF=eth0
REGION="us-east-1"
IP=`dig +short +answer "glacier.${REGION}.amazonaws.com" A | grep -v '\.$' | tr '\n' ' '`
U32="$TC filter add dev $IF protocol ip parent 1:0 prio 1 u32"

$TC qdisc add dev $IF root handle 1: htb default 30
$TC class add dev $IF parent 1: classid 1:2 htb rate 200kbps
for ip in $IP; do
    $U32 match ip dst $ip/32 flowid 1:2
done

and later, to disable filtering:

$TC qdisc del dev $IF root

Chef Integration :

You can use chef cookbooks to install and configure Glacier-CMD https://github.com/nonflet/Glacier-CMD-chef

TODO:

Changelog:

TODO

License:

MIT License