Box to S3 + Glacier: Tiered Archives with RcloneView

November 24, 2025 · 3 min read

Senior Engineer

Move Box libraries into Amazon S3 for active access and Glacier for long-term retention, with visual compares, checksum-verified syncs, and scheduled jobs -- no CLI flags required.

Box is great for collaboration, but long-term retention and large media libraries can get expensive. RcloneView lets you mirror Box folders into S3 buckets for hot access, then push aging data into Glacier classes on a schedule. You get side-by-side compares, logged jobs, and retries without babysitting scripts.

Manage & Sync All Clouds in One Place

RcloneView is a cross-platform GUI for rclone. Compare folders, transfer or sync files, and automate multi-cloud workflows with a clean, visual interface.

One-click jobs: Copy · Sync · Compare
Schedulers & history for reliable automation
Works with Google Drive, OneDrive, Dropbox, S3, WebDAV, SFTP and more

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Free core features. Plus automations available.

What We Are Solving

Reduce Box storage spend by tiering cold data into Glacier.
Keep an always-available S3 copy for active teams while Glacier holds the history.
Maintain integrity with checksum-verified jobs and an audit trail.

Connect Box and S3 Remotes Fast

Add Box and S3 remotes via + New Remote. OAuth and key setup: add-oath-online-login, s3.

Open multiple cloud remotes in RcloneView .

Use Remote Explorer to sanity-check folder depth and naming before the first sync.

cloud to cloud transfer default .

Optional: mount either remote locally for quick spot checks: mount-cloud-storage-as-a-local-drive.

Configure a mount from Mount Manager .

Compare Before You Move

Run Compare between Box and the target S3 prefix to see missing or newer files before committing: compare-folder-contents.
Filter by extensions (e.g., PDFs, CAD, media) to scope reviews.

Compare shared folder and My Drive contents .

Build a Two-Tier Pipeline (S3 Hot, Glacier Cold)

Step 1: Create a copy job from Box to S3 for the active tier: create-sync-jobs. Start with copy for safety; switch to sync after validating results.

Running an encrypted sync job in RcloneView .

Step 2: Apply S3 lifecycle policies on the bucket to transition objects to Glacier classes after N days. Keep the RcloneView job targeting the hot prefix (e.g., s3:box-archive/hot/).
Step 3: For deep archives, schedule a secondary job to push rarely used folders directly to a Glacier-focused prefix (e.g., s3:box-archive/cold/).

create job schedule .

RcloneView gives you a visual, repeatable way to exit Box, cut storage costs, and keep compliant archives in AWS. Compare first, copy safely, schedule the rest -- and sleep easy.