Lab 8:To Configure Amazon Glacier

                                                  Lab 8:To Configure Amazon Glacier

Objective: To Configure and use AWS Glacier Service

Topology:

Pre-Requites:

User Should have AWS Account ,or IAM user with Amazon Glacier Full Access Policy.

To Configure Glacier  with following task.

Transfer files from S3 to Glacier

Note:Amazon does not allows files to be directly loaded on Glacier 

Use S3 or third party tools to achieve or Restore.

1.Using S3 bucket & S3 lifecycle permission to achieve in Glacier 

Select  S3 Bucket

{Refer s3 Topics how to create bucket and upload files}

select rhe bucket

Go the properties

Click on Life cycle

Click on Add Rule

Under Life Cycle Rules

Select choose Rule Target

Apply the Rule to----------------->Whole Bucket

Select Check box Archive to the Glacier Storage class--------------->7

Select The check box permenntly Delete------------------------------->372

Click on Review 

Provide Rule Name ------------------->Testbackup

click on "Create and Activate Rule"button

click on save button

verify storage class is standard

verify once the files goes to Glacier  then storage class is Glacier 

To Restore go to the bucket select the file

Right click and select Initiate Restore

Provide number of days -------------->

click on ok

verify

File will get restored after 1 Day

Storage class will become standard.