Downloading a package from the storage service
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If you store a package with Archivematica and you want to retrieve it later, you can download it from the storage service.
To do this, you need access to the underlying S3 buckets, e.g. using the storage-developer role or with AWS access keys configured in FileZilla Pro. If you don't have these, ask a developer in the #wc-platform-feedback channel in Slack.
If you uploaded the package to prod Archivematica, then you want to look in the wellcomecollection-storage bucket.
If you uploaded the package to staging Archivematica, then you want to look in the wellcomecollection-storage-staging bucket.
If you uploaded a catalogued born-digital package, then the space is born-digital.
If you uploaded a born-digital accession, then the space is born-digital-accessions.
Open the bucket; you should see a list of top-level folders, including born-digital, born-digital-accessions and digitised.
Click on the space you identified in step 2. You should see a list of packages:
Navigate to find the package you're looking for. If you have a hierarchical identifier like PPCRI/1/a, then you need to look in the corresponding folders – PPCRI, which should contain 1, which should contain a.
You’ll get to a folder containing folders like v1, v2, v3, and so on. These are the individual versions of a package. Pick the latest version, and download all the files it contains.
Note: if a version doesn't contain any files, then it's a "shallow update" in the storage service – it updated the metadata, not the files. You can retrieve the files by downloading a previous version of the package.
