How to upload a file to amazon Glacier using Nodejs?

Question

I found this example on the amazon aws docs.

var glacier = new AWS.Glacier(),
    vaultName = 'YOUR_VAULT_NAME',
    buffer = new Buffer(2.5 * 1024 * 1024); // 2.5MB buffer

var params = {vaultName: vaultName, body: buffer};
glacier.uploadArchive(params, function(err, data) {
  if (err) console.log("Error uploading archive!", err);
  else console.log("Archive ID", data.archiveId);
});

But I don't understand where my file goes, or how to send it to the glacier servers?

Answer 1

The file is stored in the vaultName, what ever value you provide there. The data.archiveId is the representation of the file. The body is the file it self.

Here is a more general overview of Glacier

Q: How is data within Amazon Glacier organized?

Q: How do vaults work?

Q: What is an archive?

Cody Example: (As provided by hitautodestruct)

var AWS = require('aws-sdk'),
    fs = require('fs'),
    glacier = new AWS.Glacier(),
    vaultName = 'YOUR_VAULT_NAME',
    // No more than 4GB otherwise use multipart upload
    file = fs.readFileSync('FILE-TO-UPLOAD.EXT');

var params = {vaultName: vaultName, body: file};
glacier.uploadArchive(params, function(err, data) {
    if (err) console.log("Error uploading archive!", err);
    else console.log("Archive ID", data.archiveId);
});