Required libraries are glacier (which is included into repository) and boto - at the moment you still need to use development branch of boto (which you can get by running pip install --upgrade git+https://github.com/boto/boto.git).
While you can pass in your AWS Access and Secret key (--aws-access-key and --aws-secret-key), it is recommended that you create glacier_settings.py file into which you put AWS_ACCESS_KEY and AWS_SECRET_KEY strings.
You can also put REGION into glacier_settings.py to specify the default region on which you will operate (default is us-east-1). When you want to operate on a non-default region you can pass in the --region settings to the commands.
It is recommended that you enable BOOKKEEPING in glacier_settings.py to allow for saving cache information into Amazon SimpleDB database.
You have two options to retrieve an archive - first one is download, second one is getarchive.
If you use download, you will have to uniquely identify the file either by its file name, its description, or limit the search by region and vault. If that is not enough you should use getarchive and specify the archive ID of the archive you want to retrieve.
Positional arguments:
lsvault [--region REGION] List vaults
mkvault [--region REGION] vault Create a new vault
rmvault [--region REGION] vault Remove vault
listjobs [--region REGION] vault List jobs
describejob [--region REGION] vault jobid Describe job
upload [--region REGION] vault filename [description ...] Upload an archive
download [--region REGION] filename Only if BOOKKEEPING is enabled: Download an archive by searching through SimpleDB cache. Result must be unique (one archive) - if not, specify --region, --vault, or use getarchive to specify archive ID of the archive you want to download.
[--vault VAULT]
[--out-file OUT_FILE] If you pass in --out-file parameter, output will be downloaded into out_file. Otherwise it will be outputted straight into command line (stdout).
getarchive [--region REGION] vault archive [filename] Download an archive. Specify filename if you want it to output to file, other it will dump plain output into command line.
rmarchive [--region REGION] vault archive Remove archive
inventory [--region REGION] vault List inventar of a vault
search [--region REGION] [--vault VAULT] search_term If BOOKKEEPING is enabled, search through SimpleDB for search_term
Optional arguments:
--aws-access-key AWS_ACCESS_KEY
Required if you haven't created glacier_settings.py
file with AWS_ACCESS_KEY and AWS_SECRET_KEY in it. Command
line keys will override keys set in
glacier_settings.py.
--aws-secret-key AWS_SECRET_KEY
Required if you haven't created glacier_settings.py
file with AWS_ACCESS_KEY and AWS_SECRET_KEY in it. Command
line keys will override keys set in
glacier_settings.py.