Amazon Glacier

Amazon Glacier is an online file storage web service that provides storage for data archiving and backup.

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Authentication Connection

Authentication Configuration

Authentication Configuration Fields

• Name: Unique name for this auth connector.
• Client ID: The Access Key to connect to the client. For more information about AWS Access Keys,please visit this link.
• Client Secret: The Secret key associated with the above Access Key.
• S3 Region: The AWS Region where your instance is located, It will be in the aws console. default is us-east-1
• Glacier End Point: Glacier end point where the vault exists. e.g. https://glacier.us-east-1.amazonaws.com

Proxy Information

Authentication Proxy Fields

• Proxy User: The proxy user to use. (Optional)
• Proxy Password: The password for the proxy user. (leave blank if no proxy)
• Proxy Protocol: The HTTP(S) Protocol to use to connect to the proxy.
• Full Proxy Url: The Proxy Host (leave blank if no proxy).
• Proxy Port: The port to connect to on the proxy. (Optional)
• Proxy Domain: The Domain for the proxy.
• Proxy Workstation: The workstation to use.

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Discovery Connector

note

There is no Discovery Instance available for Amazon Glacier.

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Integration Connection

Amazon Glacier Integration Connection Fields

• Description: Description for this connection
• Authentication Connection: Your Amazon Glacier Auth connector

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Job Configuration

If you are using Amazon Glacier as an Output Connection you will need to fill out the following fields when setting up the integration job.

Output Specifications Fields

• Output Folder Path - Path where archive zip file is created before sending to Glacier.
• Glacier End Point - Glacier end point where the vault exists. e.g. https://glacier.us-east-1.amazonaws.com
• Glacier Vault - Name of the vault to store archive files.

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Content Service Connection

This section covers the Glacier specific configuration of the Content Service Connector. For a description of how to set up a content services connector generically see Content Service Connectors.

Configuration Fields

This section covers the Glacier specific configuration of the Content Service Connector.

• End Point: Glacier end point where the vault exists. e.g. https://glacier.us-east-1.amazonaws.com
• Vault Name: Name of the vault to store archive files.

Supported Methods

• Create File - use vault name as the folderId parameter. If folderId is left blank, will use vault name in the configuration. Returns archive ID.
• Get File Content - use the archive ID as the fileId parameter. Optional fileName parameter can be used to name the downloaded archive.

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Get File Content waits until the archive is available from Amazon. This could take up to many hours depending on the archive policy.

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