Are you using glacier specific clients? I just use an s3 client and configure the bucket to put everything in Glacier.

For example, I have a cron job calling `s3cmd sync` for my photos on my iMac once a day.

I'm aware of that easy API of getting stuff to glacier, but once it "expires" to glacier, how do you check what's actually there?

It quickly becomes a nightmare for me. Hence I need git! http://natalian.org/2015/04/13/How_I_organise_my_media/

What about s3backer with a filesystem (https://code.google.com/p/s3backer/wiki/CreatingANewFilesyst...). Then you could use regular git.

I think any active use of glacier is going to suck though. Just use that for archive.

git-annex has a glacier remote which is supposed to work (I haven't personally used it yet).

http://git-annex.branchable.com/special_remotes/glacier/