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Amazon Web Service's long-term archival/backup cloud-based service

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How to delete all glacier data?

I was using a tool on Mac OS X called Arq to backup my data, but i found it so hard to upload all my stuff since I don't and can't have an internet connection that is fast enough for it. So I decided to delete all my backups, but whenever I try from…
Shereef Marzouk
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Moving EBS snapshots to Glacier

I have hundreds of large EBS snapshots I need to move to Glacier. What's the best way to go about doing this?
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I need a simple way to backup files to Amazon glacier from the command line?

I have a CentOS server online with a directory of cPmove files I need to back up to Amazon Glacier. I only have command line access, no GUI. I need a command line client that is relatively easy to use to upload the files. For example I have used…
Ivan -Oats- Storck
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Possible to rsync to Amazon Glacier?

I have an Ubuntu 14.04 server that I need to incrementally backup nightly, preferably with rsync. Amazon's Glacier looks like a good option but none of the online tutorials I'm finding do incremental backups. Is this possible? If so, I'd appreciate…
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How do I list archives in Amazon Glacier?

I am new to Amazon Glacier. I have succesfully created a vault and uploaded some archives. In the management console I can only see the name of the vault and that it contains 4 archives, taking up 4.2 GiB. But I simply can't find a way to list the…
marlar
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Using Cloudberry SQL Server backup and Amazon Glacier efficiently

I'm using Cloudberry Serverbackup to backup my SQL databases once a month to Amazon Glacier. I know that just getting an inventory from Glacier can take a long time. Is there a way that when the backup is being performed, that I can "save the…
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Amazon Glacier inventory - how to tell which files are which?

Last September, I uploaded about 7GB of data into Amazon Glacier. I have had a catastrophic data loss and now need to get only a few files from the Vault. I have retrieved the Vault inventory but all I see are encrypted file names like…
iokevins
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What to do with upload ID beginning with dash (hyphen-minus)?

I'm having a bit of an issue when it comes to Amazon Glacier. I typed in the command aws glacier initiate-multipart-upload \ --account-id - \ --archive-description "Qozu Chronicles May 2023 Backup" \ --part-size 4294967296 \ …
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Data retrieval time - Amazon Glacier

Amazon Glacier FAQ page contains several points, which talk about time needed to retrieve data from Amazon Glacier. For example: Standard retrievals allow you to access any of your archives within several hours. Standard retrievals typically…
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Why does Amazon Glacier WJPSGlacier vault Size show '--'?

I have set up my QNAP NAS to backup to Amazon Glacier which seems to work well. However when I login to AWS the vault I am backing up to it shows the vault is empty, size 0, inventory last updated not available, etc. See the image below. Any idea…
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Is Amazon Glacier appropriate for archiving Digital Media content?

Background : A content production team shoots and records content in digital media formats. These can be a mix of raw footages, converted videos and images. These content are stored in a share folder (Linux Samba) It is 21 TB storage which is…
Anup Nair
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Why does Cloudberry Backup not list files correctly when using Amazon Glaicer?

About 10 days ago, I began a trial of Cloudberry Backup (CBB). Their Explorer product is very good and I am looking to save a few bucks by using Amazon Glacier as my offsite backup at home instead of CrashPlan. The first backup set, with my…
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Arq app — Merge a backup folder from a fresh install

context I'm using Arq app, my disk have 2 partitions, os and data, the partition I'm backing up is data. added the content under data partition to backup and waited for the data upload to complete at some point I install a fresh copy OSX and want…
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Initiate restore of directory hierarchy in Glacier to S3?

Using software that runs under Linux, is there a way to initiate a restore from Glacier to S3 of an entire directory hierarchy? The files are transferred to Glacier using a S3 bucket lifecycle rule. Restoring single files from Glacier to S3 in this…
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Can't delete duplicity s3/glacier archives

For backing up my system to s3, I'm running: duplicity 0.8.17 Python 3.9.2 boto3 '1.24.36' My daily backups run fine, as desired they are moved from s3 to glacier after a month, duplicity status shows everything as it should, with monthly full…
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