You can use Dropbox as a Glacier client and any files that user upload to Dropbox will get saved in userr Amazon Glacier Vault.
Amazon Glacier, if user are new, is an online backup service from Amazon where user can store files by paying as little as 1¢ per GB of storage space per month. Glacier is a recommended option for saving copies of files that are important but not accessed very frequently – like the photo archives on userr disk.
Amazon doesn’t provide a file uploading tool for Glacier but there are several third-party Glacier clients that user may use to easily upload files and folders from the local disk to the Glacier cloud with a easy drag-n-drop interface.
There’s another service in town called IceBox that eliminates the need for installing a separate Glacier client. The service links Amazon Glacier with userr Dropbox account and any files that user add to a particular Dropbox folder are automatically uploaded to userr Glacier vault.
The Dropbox files are queued for uploading to Amazon Glacier
This is a one-way operation so once the files have been uploaded from Dropbox to Glacier, user can safely delete the copies inside Dropbox without affecting the files that are already inside Glacier. You can also browse the file list on the IceBox website to verify that all userr Dropbox files have been successfully added to Glacier.
To get started, go to the AWS dashboard to request userr Access Keys for the Amazon Glacier service. Next follow the wizard on the Icebox website to link userr Amazon and Dropbox accounts. This will create a new folder in userr Dropbox folder and any files that user add to this folder go straight into userr Glacier vault.
The service initially had a major security vulnerability – anyone could access userr Amazon Keys by simply changing the URL – but the issue has been patched now. Alternatively, user may create a guest user in AWS for IceBox and grant access to only the Vault Archive and none of the other assets in userr Amazon cloud.
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