From 5a1351f14155f7e3e79832bb1fc99c955790ecd7 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Jan Varho Date: Sat, 9 Sep 2017 15:02:56 +0300 Subject: [PATCH] s3: Document glacier transitions and behavior --- docs/content/s3.md | 11 +++++++++++ 1 file changed, 11 insertions(+) diff --git a/docs/content/s3.md b/docs/content/s3.md index a6f31e715..e407b729d 100644 --- a/docs/content/s3.md +++ b/docs/content/s3.md @@ -299,6 +299,17 @@ Notes on above: For reference, [here's an Ansible script](https://gist.github.com/ebridges/ebfc9042dd7c756cd101cfa807b7ae2b) that will generate one or more buckets that will work with `rclone sync`. +### Glacier ### + +You can transition objects to glacier storage using a [lifecycle policy](http://docs.aws.amazon.com/AmazonS3/latest/user-guide/create-lifecycle.html). +The bucket can still be synced or copied into normally, but if rclone +tries to access the data you will see an error like below. + + 2017/09/11 19:07:43 Failed to sync: failed to open source object: Object in GLACIER, restore first: path/to/file + +In this case you need to [restore](http://docs.aws.amazon.com/AmazonS3/latest/user-guide/restore-archived-objects.html) +the object(s) in question before using rclone. + ### Specific options ### Here are the command line options specific to this cloud storage