How to download backup from amazon S3 bucket

[Neha]

May I have the steps to recursively download backup from Amazon Bucket ?

[Mandeep]

Hi Neha,

s3cmd is an utility that can be used to download the backups from S3 bucket.

1. Install s3cmd.

yum install s3cmd

2. Type below command to check if it works.

s3cmd

3. The output returned might be as below,

ERROR: /home/user/.s3cfg: No such file or directory
ERROR: Configuration file not available.
ERROR: Consider using --configure parameter to create one.

4. As suggested, we will need to configure using --configure command.

s3cmd --configure

5. You will be prompted with multiple questions about your Amazon storage server. Enter correct details on the prompt screen.

 New settings:
 Access Key: [your access key]
 Secret Key: [your securet key]
 Encryption password: Password
 Path to GPG program: /usr/bin/gpg
 Use HTTPS protocol: False
 HTTP Proxy server name: 
 HTTP Proxy server port: 0
 Test access with supplied credentials? [Y/n] Y
 Please wait...
 Success. Your access key and secret key worked fine :-)
 Now verifying that encryption works...
 Success. Encryption and decryption worked fine :-)
 Save settings? [y/N] y

That's it and you shall now be able to use s3cmd to upload/download files Amazon S3 server.

6. Command to recursively download backup:

s3cmd get --recursive s3://bucket_name/bucket_project/backup_directory/backup/  /Amazon

Where, s3://bucket_name/bucket_project/backup_directory/backup/ is the backup location where backups are stored and you want to download to your local machine.
/Amazon, Folder on your local server where you want to get the backup.