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Got Amazon Glacier working as a full-fledged special remote.
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(Well, I think it works... Since it takes 4 hours to get data out,
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which is longer than the time it took me to sign up for Glacier and
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write the special remote ... I've yet to fully test it!)
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Thanks to Robie Basak for writing glacier-cli, and developing the intial
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hook remote support. Also thanks to Peter Todd for pointing out that
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Glacier cannot store empty files, which had to be worked around in the
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special remote.
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Of course the 4 hour delay on retreval makes Glacier interesting. For now,
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you have to run "git annex get" twice, once to queue the retrieval, and a
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second time in 4 hours to get the file(s). There is a helpful example in
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[[tips/using_Amazon_Glacier]].
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The real complication though, is that Glacier's inventories take a long
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time to get, and can be out of date. So glacier-cli caches inventory info.
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I didn't feel comfortable making git-annex trust that information,
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so it'll refuse to trust that Glacier has a copy of a file when dropping
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it. There's a `--trust-glacier` switch to override this default paranoid
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behavior when dropping files.
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----
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Tomorrow ... er, tomorrow is Thanksgiving trip start.
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Next weekend: Webapp configurator for glacier, and maybe something
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to get the assistant to detect when jobs are complete and finish
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retrievals from Glacier, automatically.
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