A short script illustrating how to upload items to AWS Glacier. Also includes how to split them up before uploading. Intended for occasional use.

glacier-up.sh

#!/bin/bash

# This script assumes you have already installed the AWS CLI tools and the treehash Ruby gem.

VAULT=MyVaultName   # AWS Glacier vault name
ACCOUNT=123456890   # AWS Account number
DIR=$HOME/mydir

TREEHASH=/Users/fair/.rvm/gems/ruby-2.2.1/bin/treehash

# on OS X, to split up files into pieces Glacier prefers/can handle
# for file in *.tar ; do split -a 3 -b 100m $file $file- ; done

for user in joan jennie james jim jimbob johnboy ; do   # or other file list
    DESCRIPTION="Mail archive for $user"
    TARBALL="${DIR}/${user}.tar.bz2"
    if [ -r $TARBALL ] ; then
        SHASUM=$($TREEHASH $TARBALL) 
        echo "uploading ${TARBALL} with checksum ${SHASUM}"
        /usr/local/bin/aws glacier upload-archive --account-id $ACCOUNT --vault-name $VAULT --checksum ${SHASUM} --body $TARBALL 
    else
        echo "could not read $TARBALL"
    fi

done