S3 Push and Pull – Backup a EC2 Instance or just some data
11 May 2013
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I stumbled across a great tool to just push and pull data from an S3 bucket last week wrapped into one light weight executable. Requires .NET 2.0 or Mono so on Linux becomes a little heavy weight.
So start by pulling down the latest version:
http://s3.codeplex.com/
So to get started you need to configure your bucket, this is stored in the registry so you will need to consider the security implications, but it does allow you to set a password. For simplicity I’ll avoid this and assume that you don't mind it being visible to users/hackers!
Navigate to where you downloaded and run the command
s3 auth
As you can see you get the option to password protect or not is easy and hopefully there isn’t any problems following this through to configure your bucket ID and Key.
Now you are ready to start shifting some data!
s3 get <bucket [/folder]> <path>
Some good options are
/backup /sync /nogui
Should be fairly clear what these options do.
If you still are a little stuck try this for a full set of options.
s3 help
Assistant Professor in Visual Computing at Durham University. Stuart's research focus is on Visual Reasoning to understand the layout of visual content from Iconography (e.g. Sketches) to 3D Scene understanding and their implications on methods of interaction. He is currently a co-I on the RePAIR EU FET, DCitizens EU Twinning, and BoSS EU Lighthouse. He was a co-I on the MEMEX RIA EU H2020 project coordinated at IIT for increasing social inclusion with Cultural Heritage. Stuart has previously held a Researcher & PostDoc positions at IIT as well as PostDocs at University College London (UCL), and the University of Surrey. Also, at the University of Surrey, Stuart was awarded his PhD on visual information retrieval for sketches. Stuart holds an External Scientist at IIT, Honorary roles UCL and UCL Digital Humanities, and an international collaborator of ITI/LARSyS. He also regularly organises Vision for Art (VISART) workshop and Humanities-orientated tutorials and was Program Chair at British Machine Conference (BMVC) 2021.