How to connect Glacier storage to Vidispine

Vidispine can archive files on Amazon Glacier. There are two different ways this can be achieved:

Creating a separate Glacier storage and move files from other storages there for archival.
Using an S3 storage and transition objects to the Glacier storage class

The XML document you should post looks like this:

<StorageDocument xmlns="http://xml.vidispine.com/schema/vidispine">
  <type>ARCHIVE</type>
  <bean>GlacierBean</bean>
  <capacity>100000000000000</capacity>
  <metadata>
    <field>
      <key>glacierVaultName</key>
      <value>{vault name}</value>
    </field>
    <field>
      <key>glacierEndpoint</key>
      <value>https://glacier.us-east-1.amazonaws.com/</value>
    </field>
  </metadata>
</StorageDocument>

The rest of the details including how it relates to S3 are descrived in the API documentation for setting up Glacier.

Note, you should have a file AwsCredentials.properties under glassfish3/glassfish/domains/domain1 with format:

secretKey=yourkey
accessKey=yourkey

You can also configure com.vidispine.credentials.dir to have it under a different path which is documented in the system property section.