joern-arne/glacierpy

A small AWS Glacier client to make the deletion of vaults easier

glacierPy

A small AWS Glacier client to make the deletion of faults easier

General process

The process is supported interactively by the tool.

1. Request to Retrieve inventory of vault.
2. Wait 3-5 hours until the inventory has been created.
3. Delete inventory (all archives) from the vault.
4. Wait another 3-5 hourse until the inventory has been updated at AWS.
5. Request to Delete vaultto remove the vault completely.

Setup

Clone this repository and use make to prepare and run the script.

# clone the repository
git clone https://github.com/joern-arne/glacierPy.git

# prepare python virtual environemt and install requirements
cd glacierPy
make

Run

# run script via make
make run

# run script directly (supports parameters as described at "Usage")
venv/bin/python3 glacierPy.py

Usage

usage: glacierPy.py [-h] [--vault VAULT] [--report]

optional arguments:
  -h, --help     show this help message and exit
  --vault VAULT  Choose vault
  --report       Only print report info