Remove aws glacier vault

rm-vault.md

How to delete Vault (AWS Glacier)

This Gist give some tips in order to remove AWS Glacier Vault with AWS CLI (ie. https://aws.amazon.com/en/cli/).

Step 1 / Retrive inventory

$ aws glacier initiate-job --job-parameters '{"Type": "inventory-retrieval"}' --vault-name YOUR_VAULT_NAME --account-id YOUR_ACCOUNT_ID --region YOUR_REGION

Wait during 3/5 hours… :-(

For the new step you need to get the JobId. When the retrive inventory is done you can get it with the following command: aws glacier list-jobs --vault-name YOUR_VAULT_NAME --region YOUR_REGION

Step 2 / Get the ArchivesIds

$ aws glacier get-job-output --job-id YOUR_JOB_ID --vault-name YOUR_VAULT_NAME --region YOUR_REGION ./output.json

See. Downloading a Vault Inventory in Amazon Glacier

You can get all the ArchiveId in the ./output.json file.

Step 3 / Delete Archives

<?php

$file = './output.json' ;
$accountId = 'YOUR_ACCOUNT_ID' ;
$region = 'YOUR_REGION' ;
$vaultName = 'YOUR_VAULT_NAME' ;

$string = file_get_contents ( $file ) ;
$json = json_decode($string, true ) ;
foreach ( $json [ 'ArchiveList' ] as $jsonArchives )
{
    echo 'Delete Archive: ' . $jsonArchives [ 'ArchiveId' ] . "\n" ;
    exec ( 'aws glacier delete-archive --archive-id ' . $jsonArchives [ 'ArchiveId' ] . ' --vault-name ' . $vaultName . ' --account-id ' . $accountId . ' --region ' . $region , $output ) ;
    echo $output ;
}

Mark: After you delete an archive, if you immediately download the vault inventory, it might include the deleted archive in the list because Amazon Glacier prepares vault inventory only about once a day.

See. Deleting an Archive in Amazon Glacier

Step 4 / Delete a Vault

$ aws glacier delete-vault --vault-name YOUR_VAULT_NAME --account-id YOUR_ACCOUNT_ID --region YOUR_REGION