GlacierTool is a command line utility for accessing Amazon Glacier, the long-term storage service of Amazon Web Services.
GlacierTool is written in C# and is primarily intended to be run on Linux under the Mono runtime. It should be relatively trivial to build on other Posix platforms that support Mono, as well as on Windows under the official .NET implementation.
- Upload archives
- Download archives
- Delete archives
- Create and delete vaults
- View vault inventory
Instructions for Windows compilation with Visual Studio are left as an exercise for the reader.
The Amazon Web Services SDK for .NET is a
prerequisite for building and running GlacierTool. The most recent version (at
the time of this writing) is distributed in the project's root directory as
AWSSDK.dll. The Makefile can be easily modified if for some reason this file
is located elsewhere.
On Posix systems, first ensure that Mono is
installed. Run make in the project directory to compile GlacierTool.exe.
To run GlacierTool on a Posix System, run mono GlacierTool.exe. Running the
program without arguments will print usage information.
To perform any action with Amazon Glacier, you will need your Amazon Web Services account ID, access key, and secret key, which can be found on the security credentials page of the Amazon Web Services site after logging in.
The Mono runtime on Posix systems does not ship with SSL/TLS root certificates
installed, which means that connections to Amazon Web Services over HTTPS tend
to fail with the cryptic error message, Error getting response stream (Write: The authentication or decryption has failed.). The Mono
security FAQ has suggestions on
ways to fix this. The easy way is to simply run mozroots --import --sync,
which will install all of Mozilla's root certificates into Mono's trust store.
To do thisfor all users on the machine, instead run
mozroots --import --machine --sync as root.
Be aware that performing transactions with GlacierTool will result in fees being charged to your Amazon account, according to the pricing structure set out by Amazon. See their pricing page for specifics on their pricing policies.
The developer disclaims responsibility for charges resulting from erroneous program behavior. Be careful, and double-check before you commit anything.
This project is distributed under the terms of the
simplified BSD license. See the
LICENSE file for details.