glacier-example-uploadrchive.md

Uploading an Archive to Amazon Glacier

This Node.js code example shows:

• How to upload an archive to Amazon Glacier using the uploadArchive method of the Amazon Glacier service object.

The following example uploads a single Buffer object as an entire archive using the uploadArchive method of the Amazon Glacier service object.

The example assumes you've already created a vault named YOUR_VAULT_NAME. The SDK automatically computes the tree hash checksum for the data uploaded, though you can override it by passing your own checksum parameter:

Prerequisite Tasks

To set up and run this example, you must first complete these tasks:

• Install Node.js. For more information about installing Node.js, see the Node.js website.
• Create a shared configurations file with your user credentials. For more information about providing a shared credentials file, see Loading Credentials in Node.js from the Shared Credentials File.

Configuring the SDK

Configure the SDK for JavaScript by creating a global configuration object then setting the region for your code. In this example, the region is set to us-west-2.

// Load the SDK for JavaScript
var AWS = require('aws-sdk');
// Set the region 
AWS.config.update({region: 'us-west-2'});

Upload the Archive

// Load the SDK for JavaScript
var AWS = require('aws-sdk');
// Set the region 
AWS.config.update({region: 'us-west-2'});
            
var glacier = new AWS.Glacier({apiVersion: '2012-06-01'}),
buffer = new Buffer(2.5 * 1024 * 1024); // 2.5MB buffer

var params = {vaultName: 'YOUR_VAULT_NAME', body: buffer};
glacier.uploadArchive(params, function(err, data) {
if (err) console.log("Error uploading archive!", err);
else console.log("Archive ID", data.archiveId);
});