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Perl Multithreaded Multipart sync to Amazon Glacier
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How to get Inventory Last Updated #46

Closed cgfrosty closed 10 years ago

cgfrosty commented 10 years ago

Hello,

Problem We need to know what our glacier backup doing every day. We use PRTG for monitoring our IT infrastructure. Unfortunately it does not have sensor for glacier. But we can create custom sensor and read test files in linux machine with mt-aws-glacier. Question Is it possible to get "Inventory Last Updated" from glacier service side via mt-aws-glacier and write it to text file in local machine? If it is possible it make us very happy! Thank you! Alex

vsespb commented 10 years ago

Hi. retrieve-inventory command + download-inventroy (wait 4h between them). It will write Journal file. It's a text file, but format is custom, not really documented and can change.

vsespb commented 10 years ago

How exactly you were going to parse the text file? I might help you with regexps and advice about future compatibility issues.

There are some docs about journal format https://github.com/vsespb/mt-aws-glacier#journal-concept but it does not define exact format.

Also, you can check-local-hash with journal. It will check that all your files (defined in journal) are in place and checksum does match and will return error code otherwise. (that's probably exactly what you want, but error will be thrown if just few existing files are already modified but not yet backuped, and that can be a problem)

vsespb commented 10 years ago

closing for now, let me know if you have further questions - I will reopen then.