Using CrossFTP as Amazon Glacier Client on Windows, Mac, and Linux

Amazon Glacier is an extremely low-cost storage service that provides secure and durable storage for data archiving and backup. In order to keep costs low, Amazon Glacier is optimized for data that is infrequently accessed and for which retrieval times of several hours are suitable.

CrossFTP comes with full support of Amazon Glacier on Windows, Mac, and Linux. It allows you to create vaults, move data to vaults and request to download the data back to your computer.

Connect to Amazon Glacier

You can create a new Amazon Glacier site in Sites -> Site Manager, and choose the Protocol as Amazon Glacier/HTTPS.

New Amazon Glacier Site

• Host: the Amazon Glacier's region endpoint, see the endpoint definitions in: http://docs.aws.amazon.com/general/latest/gr/rande.html#glacier_region. The default region is US East (Northern Virginia) Region.
• Access Key & Secret: you can find your Security Credentials from the Amazon AWS page https://aws-portal.amazon.com/gp/aws/developer/account/index.html?ie=UTF8&action=access-key

 Create Vault

You can create new vaults at the root folder of the Amazon Glacier site by choosing New Folder.
You can upload/backup your local files to the Amazon Glacier site by Transfer / Drag & Drop local files to the remote site. By default, all files transferred to Amazon Glacier will be stored in CrossFTP's local cache pool with the file metadata, so that you can browse your vault inventory directly. However, after your request a file download/retrieval, normally it will take 4~5 hours before Amazon can finish the preparation to initiate the download of file.

Retrieve Vault Inventory

Attention: if you upload files using other Amazon Glacier tools, or the vault's content seems incorrect, you need to retrieve the vault inventory.
If you want to retrieve the content of the vault inventory, you can simply press the Refresh folder button. CrossFTP will confirm with you whether you want to download the content of the vault inventory. Again, it normally takes 4~5 hours before Amazon can finish the preparation to initiate the download of file.

 

Load Vault Inventory Metadata from Local

If you have retrieved the inventory metadata file on your local machine, you can reload the inventory content using file directly by "Retrieve Vault Metadata" menu, see example below:

Backup files in DEEP_ARCHIVE Storage Class

If you want to make more cost effective backup and restore of files through DEEP_ARCHIVE storage, check this page.

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