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DigitalOcean Spaces: cannot download directory with more than 1000 files

Posted December 12, 2019 453 views
DigitalOcean Spaces

My goal is to recursively download a directory from DigitalOcean spaces to local machine (nothing fancy).
If I attempt to use AWS CLI for the job, aws s3 commands download only first 1000 files from any directory that contains more than 1000 files.

To reproduce:

  • Create directory test1 with 1007 files locally
  • Upload this directory to spaces: aws s3 cp --recursive --endpoint=https://reg1.digitaloceanspaces.com s3://mybucket/test1/ ./test1/
  • Upload works as expected (uploads all 1007 files)
  • Try to download this directory locally: aws s3 cp --recursive --endpoint=https://reg1.digitaloceanspaces.com s3://mybucket/test1/ ./download1/
  • Downloaded directory contains only 1000 files

Adding argument –page-size=500 to aws s3 cp command, downloads only first 500 files, so it downloads only the first page.
Reproduced on Linux, macOS, multiple AWS CLI, multiple Python versions.

Is downloading entire bucket or directory not possible with AWS CLI? This seems like a very basic feature that should just work.

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metus January 3, 2020

Facing exact same problem… This is pretty critical, any ideas?

This is my command:
aws s3 sync s3://bucket-a s3://bucket-b –endpoint=https://fra1.digitaloceanspaces.com

Only copies over 1000 files… of over 30 million.

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cal8689e2df400c9d6e76d1989 January 7, 2020

Same issue here. This is pretty nasty problem

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henrymdoupe January 9, 2020

My hunch is that it’s related to the default behavior of the bucket list operation which is to only list 1,000 files.

https://developers.digitalocean.com/documentation/spaces/#list-bucket-contents

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mauriziob January 12, 2020

hi! any news about this from DO?

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radiance January 14, 2020

If I try to use s3cmd to accomplish the same goal (recursively download a directory with many files), I experience error: http.client.RemoteDisconnected: Remote end closed connection without response. Single empty file is created and this error is displayed after around 5 minutes; also memory usage grows to almost 1GB during the failure. This happens on a standard DO Ubuntu 18.04 droplet with around 500k files in the target DO Spaces directory.

Right now I have not found any solution to download directory with many files from DO Spaces locally with a standard tooling like aws cli, s3cmd. So no easy way to backup locally or migrate to another service. I am surprised nobody has mentioned these issues previously.

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0tto March 7, 2020

Running into the same issue, this is very frustrating since all s3 operations will be silently capped at 1000 files max.

I assume this is mentioned as a ‘known issues’ at https://www.digitalocean.com/docs/spaces/

In the API, list-objects-v2 pagination does not work.

It basically means do not use DO spaces for anything serious

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