AWS Archive

awsarchive is a Python toolkit for archiving files using AWS services.

The goal of this project is to provide best practice methods for archiving files using the products provided by AWS. This project will provide both command line utilities and Python API's.

• Used AWS Services
• Installation
• Contribute
• Command line utilities
• API

Further Documentation: http://awsarchive.readthedocs.org/

Used AWS Services

awsarchive makes use of the following AWS services:

• Glacier
• SimpleDB

The project assumes that you have a single AWS access and secret key that can be used across the AWS services used.

Installation

Install via pip:

$ pip install awsarchive

Install from source:

$ git clone git://github.com/billyshambrook/awsarchive.git
$ cd awsarchive
$ python setup.py install

Contribute

awsarchive is an open-source software originally written by BillyShambrook and released under the MIT licence. The project is hosted on Github, where everyone is welcome to contribute, ask for help or simply give feedback. Please fork project, add your changes and open a pull request.

Command line utilities

awsarchive can be accessed via the command line using awsarchive followed by the command you wish to perform.

To list all the commands available do:

$ awsarchive --help

or to get help for a specific command do:

$ awsarchive <command> --help

Commands	Description
glacier	Move files to Glacier.