E1e12e·Mar 14, 2023
And s4cmd...
https://github.com/bloomreach/s4cmd
In Mountpoint – file client for S3 written in Rust, from AWSbloomreach
s4cmd
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bloomreach / s4cmd
s4cmd
Super S3 command line tool
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Super S3 command line tool
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| Period | Start (UTC) | End (exclusive, UTC) | Mentions | Submissions | Comments |
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| 2014 | 2014-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2015-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 1 | 1 | 0 |
| 2015 | 2015-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2016-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2 | 1 | 1 |
| 2016 | 2016-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2017-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| 2017 | 2017-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2018-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 2018 | 2018-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2019-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 2019 | 2019-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2020-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| 2020 | 2020-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2021-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| 2021 | 2021-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2022-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| 2022 | 2022-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2023-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 2023 | 2023-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2024-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 1 | 0 | 1 |
What Hacker News says
8 sourcesNo mention of how it compares to s4cmd (which like s3cmd is python).
https://github.com/bloomreach/s4cmd
In Downloading files from S3 with multithreading and Boto3I had a similar task once, tried it with awscli and s3cmd first,
then took about 5 minutes to google for a multithreaded alternative and found s4cmd[1], problem solved. (tmux to keep the session running)
Makes me kinda doubt at least parts of this story - not one of these 7 engineers thought about googling?
Edit to add: Agree with the basic premise though - s3 can be real slow when when you actually need to work with your data.
[1] https://github.com/bloomreach/s4cmd
In Moving 25TB data from one S3 bucket to another took 7 engineers and 2 full daysCheck s4cmd - https://github.com/bloomreach/s4cmd
In Metaflow, Netflix's Python framework for data science, is now open sourceUsing S4cmd on my Debian box I backup copies of my entire Lightroom folder structure contents. All my personal photos and videos get uploaded to a bucket on S3, then I convert the entire bucket to Glacier. Now with the new pricing of $0.004/GB and easy retrieval, it's a very nice setup.
To backup nearly a terabyte of photos costs about $4/month in storage costs. Uploading costs a bit extra due to the pricing for requests.
https://github.com/bloomreach/s4cmd
In Amazon S3 and Glacier Price Reductions