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diff --git a/doc/todo/special_remote_for_amazon_glacier.mdwn b/doc/todo/special_remote_for_amazon_glacier.mdwn deleted file mode 100644 index 9b8b9d74e..000000000 --- a/doc/todo/special_remote_for_amazon_glacier.mdwn +++ /dev/null @@ -1,30 +0,0 @@ -Amazon's new glacier service would be a nice special remote to support for -long-term archival. - -The main difficulty is that glacier is organized into vaults, and accessing -a file in a vault takes ~4 hours. A naive implementation would make `git -annex get` wait for 4 hours, which is certainly not reasonable. - -One approach I am pondering is to make each glacier vault a separate -special remote. You could then request git-annex to spin up a remote, and -come back later, and be able to access the data stored in it (need to check -if glacier would also allow adding new data to it then). This is -conceptually similar to using git-annex with offline removable drives, -except with glacier, you have a controllable robot to get them plugged in. :) - -Ideally, git-annex would arrange for glacier to send it a message when the -vault becomes available, and the user could queue a list of commands to -run, or files to transfer, at that point. - ---[[Joey]] - -> [[done]]! --[[Joey]] - ------ - -> In the coming months, Amazon S3 will introduce an option that will allow customers to seamlessly move data between Amazon S3 and Amazon Glacier based on data lifecycle policies. - --- <http://aws.amazon.com/glacier/faqs/#How_should_I_choose_between_Amazon_Glacier_and_Amazon_S3> - ->> They did, but it's IMHO not very useful for git-annex. It's rather ->> intended to allow aging S3 storage out to Glacier. --[[Joey]] |