Amazon Glacier can be used as a data sanctuary-of-last-resort. The API is simple and Amazon’s AWS offerings inspire Google-level confidence. While gleeful to augment my collection of ad-hoc backup methods, I was also wary of trusting the github projects that were sprouting like dandelions.
But eventually my old Ubuntu distro wore out, and I decided to create my own Glacier “client” before upgrading. Its mission: upload one file to Glacier. No GUI, no command-line interface, not even a progress bar. Lo and behold, Amazon has a tutorial for exactly this. If you are familiar with the Java/Eclipse (or .Net) ecosystem, then you too can roll your own archival tool with very little time investment and no third-party vendor lock-in.
