Upload to Amazon Glacier using PowerShell

CloudBerry Explorer PowerShell snippets for Amazon Glacier  

As always we are adding features to make it easier for our customers to use the functionality to offer the most compelling Amazon S3 , CloudFront , IAM and Glacier client on Windows platform.

CloudBerry S3 Explorer has supported Glacier for quite some time now.  We introduced the Glacier support in September, followed by supporting encryption and compression and finally Amazon S3 to Glacier archiving.

Since the very first release CloudBerry Explorer featured PowerShell extension to automate Amazon S3 and CloudFront tasks. The latest release of CloudBerry Explorer comes with a PowerShell extension that helps users automate Glacier tasks and integrate it with other PowerShell routines. The extension includes commands such as create, delete vaults, copy and move data to Glacier, create Inventory and Retrieval jobs and create Lifecycle policies. 

Here is a few examples of PowerShell command.

How to copy the files to Amazon Glacier using MS PowerShell

# Add snap-in

add-pssnapin CloudBerryLab.Explorer.PSSnapIn

# Enable logging and specify path

Set-Logging -LogPath "C:\Users\username\AppData\Local\CloudBerry S3 Explorer PRO\Logs\PowerShell.log" -LogLevel Info

# Create connection

$conn = Get-CloudGlacierConnection -Key XXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXX -Secret XXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXX

# Set options

Set-CloudOption -GlacierRetrievalRateLimitType Specified

Set-CloudOption -GlacierChunkSizeMB 4

Set-CloudOption -GlacierParallelUpload 1

# Set peak retrieval rate, MB/hour

Set-CloudOption -GlacierPeakRetrievalRateLimit 23.5

# Select a vault

$vault = $conn | Select-CloudFolder -Path "us-east-1/vault1"

# Let's copy to the vault

$destination = $vault

# Select source folder

$src = Get-CloudFilesystemConnection | Select-CloudFolder "C:\Tmp"

# Upload files to Glacier by filter

$src | Copy-CloudItem $destination -filter "sample.txt"

# Upload all files to Glacier

$src | Copy-CloudItem $destination -filter "*"

# Delete vault

$conn | Remove-CloudBucket $vault

How to copy the file form Amazon Glacier to Local computer

# Add snap-in

add-pssnapin CloudBerryLab.Explorer.PSSnapIn

# Enable logging and specify path

Set-Logging -LogPath "C:\Users\username\AppData\Local\CloudBerry S3 Explorer PRO\Logs\PowerShell.log" -LogLevel Info

# Create connection

$conn = Get-CloudGlacierConnection -Key XXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXX -Secret XXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXX

# Get existing vault

$vault = $conn | Select-CloudFolder -Path "us-east-1/vault1"

# Get vault inventory.

# Note: this command may take up to 5 hours to execute if inventory has not been prepared yet.

$invJob = $vault | Get-Inventory

# Now read vault archives

$archives = $vault | get-clouditem

# Select destination local folder.

$dst = Get-CloudFilesystemConnection | Select-CloudFolder "C:\Tmp"

# Copy files from vault. Only files located in C:\Tmp folder and subfolders will be copied.

# Note: this command may take many hours to execute when files have not been prepared for copying yet.

$vault | Copy-CloudItem $dst -filter "C:\Tmp\*.*"

the complete list of commands is available on our website at http://www.cloudberrylab.com/default.aspx?page=amazon-s3-powershell  

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Note: this post applies to CloudBerry Explorer freeware 3.7.3 and later.

As always we would be happy to hear your feedback and you are welcome to post a comment.

CloudBerry S3 Explorer is a Windows freeware product that helps managing Amazon S3 storage and CloudFront . You can download it at http://www.cloudberrylab.com/free 

CloudBerry S3 Explorer PRO is a Windows program that helps managing Amazon S3 storage and CloudFront . You can download it at http://www.cloudberrylab.com/pro  It is priced at $39.99 

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