How to restore folders (or entire buckets) to Amazon S3 from Glacier?

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TylerW picture TylerW · Nov 17, 2013 · Viewed 39.1k times · Source

I changed the lifecycle for a bunch of my buckets on Amazon S3 so their storage class was set to Glacier. I did this using the online AWS Console. I now need those files again.

I know how to restore them back to S3 per file. But my buckets have thousands of files. I wanted to see if there was a way to restore the entire bucket back to S3, just like there was a way to send the entire bucket to Glacier?

I'm guessing there's a way to program a solution. But I wanted to see if there was a way to do it in the Console. Or with another program? Or something else I might be missing?

Answer

Nate Fox picture Nate Fox · Jan 16, 2015

If you use s3cmd you can use it to restore recursively pretty easily:

s3cmd restore --recursive s3://mybucketname/

I've also used it to restore just folders as well:

s3cmd restore --recursive s3://mybucketname/folder/

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