The Guardian Workflow: a generalized approach for integrating Amazon Glacier with a Samvera repository

[richardGreen]

"This session details work done at the University of Pennsylvania to incorporate Amazon Glacier as a third-copy backup storage location for objects in our repository using a series of components that were developed as generalized tools that can be integrated into any Ruby-based application to manage object copies in Glacier.

This session will cover:

• Fundamental concepts of managing repository objects as Glacier archives
• Best practices followed at Penn Libraries for efficient, affordable transfer and retrieval interactions with Glacier
• A dive into the stronghold gem, developed at Penn Libraries, which provides a simple interface for interacting with Glacier (https://github.com/upenn-libraries/stronghold)
• Demonstration of Penn's workflow for running synchronous transfer of objects to Glacier using guardian, a set of Ruby scripts serving as the orchestration layer (https://github.com/upenn-libraries/guardian)
• A report on the reusability of these components to quickly develop Ruby-based integrations with Amazon Glacier in other applications
• Challenges faced while integrating asynchronous storage with our Samvera repository
• Considerations for developing a disaster recovery plan dealing with large-scale data loss and recovery"

Kate Lynch katherly@upenn.edu

[richardGreen]

Confirmed and recording ok 8/8

[richardGreen]

Registered 8/16 - system info