Delete AWS Glacier vault, including all archives, from bash.

README.md

Delete Entire AWS Glacier Vaults

This script will delete all archives in an AWS Glacier vault, then delete the vault. It Assumes you have already got an AWS credential profile setup. See aws configure --profile or AWS Docs here

Prerequisites

Aside from bash, you'll need:

• aws cli
• jq

On OSX, these can be installed with homebrew:

brew install awscli jq

Support

For support, please email support@tidalmigrations.com

By Tidal Migrations - Your Cloud Migration Solution

delete_glacier.sh

#!/bin/bash
#
# This script will delete all archives in an AWS Glacier vault, then
# delete the vault.
#
# Assumes you have already got an AWS credential profile setup. 
# See `aws configure --profile`
#
# Author: david.colebatch@tidalmigrations.com
#

# CONFIGURE HERE:
VAULT_NAME=<YOUR VAULT NAME>
REGION=<us-west-2 etc.>
PROFILE=default
POLL_INTERVAL=600       # Poll the glacier job every 10 minutes

# READ BELOW FOR STEPS:

######################################
# 1. GET ARCHIVES IN VAULT:
JOB_ID=$(aws --profile $PROFILE glacier initiate-job --job-parameters '{"Type": "inventory-retrieval"}' --account-id - --region $REGION --vault-name $VAULT_NAME | jq .jobId)
echo "Got JOB_ID: $JOB_ID"
echo ""

echo "Let sleeping jobs lie, for 4-5hrs"
echo "Current time `date`"
echo "-----------------------------------"
echo "Polling every $POLL_INTERVAL seconds..."
sleep 60  # It can take a minute for the job to be registered and available to poll

######################################
# 2. GET ARCHIVE IDS
until $(aws --profile $PROFILE glacier get-job-output --job-id $JOB_ID --account-id - --region $REGION --vault-name $VAULT_NAME ./output.json | grep -v -m 1 "The job is not currently available for download"); do
   echo "`date`: Sleeping for $POLL_INTERVAL seconds..."
   sleep $POLL_INTERVAL
done
echo "Job complete. Continuing...."
jq -r '.ArchiveList | .[] | .ArchiveId' output.json > $VAULT_NAME_archive_ids.txt
echo "Number of archives in vault ($VAULT_NAME): `wc -l $VAULT_NAME_archive_ids.txt`"

######################################
# 3. DELETE ARCHIVES
while read archId; do
  echo "deleting $archId..."
  aws --profile $PROFILE glacier delete-archive --archive-id=$archId --vault-name $VAULT_NAME --account-id - --region $REGION
done <$VAULT_NAME_archive_ids.txt

######################################
# 4. DELETE VAULT
echo "Vault empty.  Press CTRL+D to delete vault $VAULT_NAME, or CTRL+C to exit."
echo ""
cat
echo "Continuing...."

aws --profile $PROFILE glacier delete-vault --vault-name $VAULT_NAME --account-id - --region $REGION
echo "Done."