Big Ice lets you interact with Amazon Glacier from a command line shell. The main goal is to make backing up to Amazon Glacier as easy as possible.

You will need a Java JRE 1.5 later to run Big Ice.

Download the big-ice.jar

All Big Ice commands require an Amazon Access Key and Secret Key. You can get those at your Amazon Security Credentials

Listing All Vaults -

java -jar big-ice.jar <AccessKey> <SecretKey> vaults

Creating a New Vault -

java -jar big-ice.jar <AccessKey> <SecretKey> create <VaultName>

Deleting a Vault -

java -jar big-ice.jar <AccessKey> <SecretKey> delete <VaultName>

List Jobs For a Vault -

java -jar big-ice.jar <AccessKey> <SecretKey> jobs <VaultName>

Backup a File -

java -jar big-ice.jar <AccessKey> <SecretKey> upload <VaultName> <FileToBackup

You will need to install Simple Build Tool for Scala to be able to build Big Ice.

Clone on Github and run sbt assembly to package a new big-ice.jar