Saturday, August 23, 2014

CloudBerry Explorer - UI alternative to s3cmd or AWS CLI commands

If you have storage on Amazon S3, then sooner or later you will needing a tool that can do entire folder backups to local disk or another cloud storage. Amazon S3 bucket allows you to download only specific files within the bucket at a time. CloudBerry Explorer has a free version and a pro version and I am happy to report that free does the job fairly well.

You would have to create a S3 bucket and create a IAM user with S3 "read-only" bucket policy like below:-

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{
    "Version": "2012-10-17",
    "Statement": [
        {
            "Effect": "Allow",
            "Action": [
                "s3:Get*",
                "s3:List*"
            ],
            "Resource": "*"
        }
    ]
}
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Next download and install CloudBerry Explorer and then configure the S3 user that you just created in the IAM.


Once you have set up, you can downloads entire buckets or sync with other storage options

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