I selected the 'Standard' retrieval option, since that was the fastest available (regular Glacier-not Deep Archive-also offers an 'Expedited' rate for more money), and initiated the restore. my-bucket), then checked the box next to the three files and initiated a "restore". Using Amazon's S3 Management Console, I browsed to the file path in my bucket (e.g. I wanted to document how I restored the three individual video files I needed in this post, just so I don't have to spend the extra 5 minutes reading through Amazon's docs: Initiating a restore I had actually deleted the files from both my local copies, so I was slightly nervous, but it turns out I had run the backup to Glacier manually the night before, so all my video was intact.īut the 'Deep Archive' means data is stored offline in tape storage, and retrieval takes a minimum of about 12 hours. Well, apparently three of the video files were not yet consolidated, and Final Cut Pro showed the dreaded "media missing" warning. I had finished most of the edit, and after I thought I had finished the process of 'consolidating' the media files into my video library, I deleted the "scratch" folder that held all the original files.
Well, this week I was working on editing a video project with about 60 GB of video files.
Then I also back up everything (including video content) from my NAS to an Amazon S3 Glacier Deep Archive-backed bucket at least once a week (sometimes more frequently, when I am working on a big project and manually kick off a mid-week backup). I still haven't blogged about my overall backup strategy (though I've mentioned it in the past a few times on my YouTube channel)-but overall, how it works is I have two local copies of any important data, and most of the non-video data is also stored in my Dropbox folder, so I get two local copies and one cloud backup for 'free'.
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