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Trying to understand S3 Lifecycle rule

I am working on an e-commerce website. I store product photos in an s3 bucket. Once the product is deleted, I also delete the photos from s3 bucket. I have S3 bucket versioning enabled. I am not ...
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how to download archive in aws s3 glacier

first, sorry for my bad english. i create a vault in glacier service and then i uploaded an archive into vault and in out-put, aws gave back me a archive id. then using the archive-id, i created a job ...
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Transition of a large bucket to S3 Glacier

I want to move a 72 TB size bucket from S3 Standard to S3 Glacier. I'm going to create a Lifecycle rule and set "Transition current versions of objects between storage classes" to 1 day. I ...
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AWS Glacier and Ransomware

I'm trying to understand the structure of how AWS Glacier works because I have a problem. Problem: I have a NAS that backs up to Glacier about once a week. About two weeks ago the NAS got infected ...
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Should I archive file copies from S3 into Glacier one-by-one Or should I zip them first?

I have an s3 bucket named media and in it I have a folder named contracts that stores pdf files ~400kb each. For the files in this folder I keep a record in a database as well with the following ...
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Is there a way to see the list of pending S3 Glacier retrievals in the AWS console?

I've initiated the retrieval of an S3 file using the Glacier Deep Archive storage class, using the AWS console. I just got a success message, and no link to a page where I can monitor the status of my ...
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S3 PUT directly to glacier

This AWS post from 2018 makes it sound like it should be possible to make S3 style PUT requests to create archives in glacier now: I'm interpreting that to mean that you could use the s3 CLI or sdk ...
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Backing up an SQL backup file from EC2 to Glacier

I have an EC2 server running Sendy (bulk mailing) and I wanted to take backups of the SQL db. Currently, I can download the backup.sql file manually via Virtualmin but I wanted to automate this. I've ...
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Can I create a lifecycle rule to AWS S3 that moves objects that are already in GLACIER class to DEEP_ARCHIVE after 180 days?

My company has probably close to a petabyte of data in s3 and we've been using S3's GLACIER class to get some cost savings. The files that are already in glacier were manually chosen to be put there ...
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aws life cycle rules to transition files from s3 bucket to Glacier storage class

I am creating life cycle rules to move files from bucket to the glacier storage class. I was wondering if there is an option to copy files from S3 bucket to Glacier using either CLI or console? I ...
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If I already have files in an S3 bucket in the Glacier storage class, what happens if I apply a bucket policy to move to Glacier after 1 day?

We have a pre-existing S3 bucket that we are looking to add a lifecycle policy to in order to move large files in S3 standard to Glacier. The bucket already contains items with the Glacier storage ...
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How to automatically archive AWS S3 whole buckets to S3 Glacier?

I'm required to archive around 200 AWS S3 buckets to S3 Glacier and I would like to do it automatically but I can't find how it can be done with aws-cli. The only method I found, is through AWS UI... ...
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Amazon S3 to Amazon Glacier custom vault

So I was researching about Amazon Cloud services and how to backup all my personal infrastructure to the cloud -btw it's really amazing what Amazon has achieved on this field-. I started looking ...
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Minimum AWS policy actions required for retrieving Glacier files through S3?

I'm trying to create a policy for an IAM account that will allow an employee to have full read permissions for our S3 (lifecycled to Glacier) buckets, with no unnecessary write abilities as to avoid ...
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How to backup a s3 bucket to the glacier?

I'm having some difficulty setting up my S3 to make an automatic backup to Glacier. That is, I want a copy of my s3 on the glacier every day. How to do this?
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How correctly and cost effective to store EC2 instance backups

How correctly and cost effective to store EC2 instance backups? I have a scenario like: Create EC2-instance snapshot. Move it to S3 bucket. Move it from S3 bucket to Glacier Done It is correctly ...
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How do I order a retrieval drive from AWS Glacier?

I have 3.5TB of data (file backups) in AWS Glacier. I would like AWS to ship me a retrieval drive/appliance with this data because I don't think the download would successfully complete. I attempted ...
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AWS Cost for Uploading to S3 and immediately transitioning to glacier

I have a client uploading multiple TB of data to Glacier. They did a snowball that got 65 TB of data, and they are going to do the remaining ~25 via upload. Currently they are uploading directly to ...
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s3cmd restore recursive not working right

I am running the following command to restore the data from Amazon S3 to the web server. s3cmd restore --recursive s3://my-bucket/Weekly-Sunday/dbexports/ and getting this error: Restore is not ...
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Glacier retrieval notification of s3 objects

I have some s3 buckets which send their objects to glacier after x days of creation. When I go to retrieve those objects on the s3 interface, I need to keep reloading page to see when restoration has ...
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Can I use Glacier to snapshot S3 like a point-in-time backup?

I have a series of directories on numerous computers that I backup to an S3 bucket nightly using dgsync. I'd like a solution that will permit me to archive occasionally: once a week for the past four ...
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Simple S3 -> Glacier Backup

I'm looking to backup a few terabytes of data in our S3 buckets to Amazon Glacier. I've seen the options for "automatic archival" of S3 -> Glacier, but I'd rather it just be a simple one time dump (...
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