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#12171 How to Get a Backup File Out of S3

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Latest post by nicholas on Friday, 04 May 2012 02:15 CDT

user52353
Mandatory information about my setup:

Have I read the related troubleshooter articles above before posting (which pages?)? Yes
Have I searched the tickets before posting? Yes
Have I read the documentation before posting (which pages?)? Yes
Joomla! version: 2.5
PHP version: 5.3.10
MySQL version: 5.1.61
Host: gigenetcloud
Akeeba Backup version: (unknown)

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Description of my issue:

Can you tell me how to get a backup file out of Amazon S3 and onto my server? I have tried 3 times to download it using their interface and each time it gets to about 50 or 60% after an hour and then says it can't save because it can't read the file.

Can it be ssh'd or scp'd? If so how do we access it since it isn't a regular IP and directory?

Thank you.

nicholas
Akeeba Staff
Manager
Depending on your operating system, you may use one of the following:
  • S3Fox. Firefox add-on, cross-platform (Windows, Linux, Mac OS X).
  • s3cmd. Command-line client, cross-platform.
  • Transmit. Mac OS X, commercial.
  • Cyberduck. Mac OS X, free.
  • CloudBerry S3 Explorer. Windows, has free and paid versions.


Alternatively, you can use Akeeba Kickstart Professional 3.5.1 which sports a handy "Import from S3" feature.

Finally, if you are a Linux geek, you can also set the file's ACL in Amazon's interface to public read, then use wget or cURL to fetch the file to your server.

Nicholas K. Dionysopoulos

Lead Developer and Director

🇬🇷Greek: native 🇬🇧English: excellent 🇫🇷French: basic • 🕐 My time zone is Europe / Athens
Please keep in mind my timezone and cultural differences when reading my replies. Thank you!

user52353
I meant to update you earlier. I actually realized it was a lot easier than I expected. I just used wget in ssh. I had to remove the permissions for about 5 minutes though because I couldn't figure out how to get it to ask for the key.

I'm glad to hear that Kickstart has an S3 Import feature. Will definitely use that in the future.

Thanks.

nicholas
Akeeba Staff
Manager
You're welcome!

Nicholas K. Dionysopoulos

Lead Developer and Director

🇬🇷Greek: native 🇬🇧English: excellent 🇫🇷French: basic • 🕐 My time zone is Europe / Athens
Please keep in mind my timezone and cultural differences when reading my replies. Thank you!

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