NAME

glacier periodic - periodic cronjob for Glacier

SYNOPSIS

glacier periodic

DESCRIPTION

Scans glacier jobs, cleaning up expired and failed ones and finishing up completed ones. For each completed archive retrieval job, the target file is downloaded and stored in directory configured by the transfer.download.cachedir configuration setting (default - /var/lib/glacier/cache). This file will be removed when the corresponding jobs expires. For each completed inventory retrieval job, the vault inventory is obtained and stored in the database.

It is recommended to schedule this command for periodic execution in your crontab, e.g.:

*/4 * * * *  root  glacier periodic