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Copy Bucket and Object on Amazon S3

Using Transfer panel [1] you can copy object from source bucket to target bucket in same account or in different account. If objects which are to be copied already exist then it prompts to overwrite or skip. If you choose to overwrite, it overwrites previous file with newer one and older versions of objects will be copied to version folder of System Bucket having object name appended with current date and time. You can copy whole source bucket to destination bucket by choosing copy Bucket from Bucket option on Bucket Tool bar.

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If the source and target bucket are same then copy object can only be performed if the objects of bucket are in different hierarchy.


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Amazon S3 Bucket Copy : If you are a user of Bucket Explorer and want to copy one bucket into another bucket, follow the steps below:
  1. Start the Bucket Explorer and connect with your Amazon S3 Account .
  2. Select a bucket from bucket list and choose “Bucket -> Copy” from Bucket toolbar.
  3. It will open a Transfer Panel with the list of Buckets from your logged in S3 account at left side panel.
  4. Now select the nick name ( Authentication profile name for your saved credentials) from Nick Name combo box placed at Right side panel.
  5. Click on "Go" button, it will connect you to the account and list buckets from selected S3 account at right side table.  
  6. If you want to copy the bucket within same S3 account then select same Nick name (Authentication profile name) at both left and right side panel. Else if you want to copy with in different S3 account, then select different Nick Name at right side panel from the selected account at left side panel.
  7. Now simply select a bucket from left side (source Bucket) and a bucket from right side (destination bucket).
  8. Now click on ‘Copy ->’ blue colored arrow directed towards Left to Right side at the middle of the transfer panel.
  9. This will ask for queue option, select desired queue option.
  10. Copy operation will be started in Bucket Explorer queue window.
  11. Click on Statistics tab of queue window to see total copied, failed and pending files.
  12. See the list of successfully copied ,Identical-Skipped ,Failed files in appropriate tab.
  13. If any operation failed then it retries automatically by default 3 times.
  14. After completion of automatic retry limit if any failed operation is still there then Retry button will be visible on Statistics panel .Click on retry button to copy the failed files.
  15. After successful completion of copying process close the queue window.
  16. You will find all the objects of source bucket have been copied to destination bucket.
      
Amazon S3 Object Copy : If you want to Copy file(s)/ folder(s) of a Bucket into another bucket or in different level of folder of same Bucket or different Amazon S3 account, follow the steps below :
  1. Start the Bucket Explorer and connect with your Amazon S3 Account.
  2. Select Bucket from which you want to copy objects.
  3. Right click on selected S3 file(s).
  4. Select Copy, Move & rename option.
  5. Click on Copy option.
  6. It will open a Transfer Panel with the list of objects from Bucket selected at main panel in your S3 account on left side panel.
  7. Now select Nick name (Authentication profile name for your saved credentials) from Nick Name combo box placed at Right side panel.
  8. Click on Go button. This will list buckets from selected S3 account at right side table.
  9. If you want to copy the objects of bucket within same S3 account then select same Nick name (Authentication profile name) at both left and right side panel. Else if you want to copy with in different S3 account, then select different Nick Name at right side panel from the selected account at left side panel.
  10. Now simply double click to a bucket from right side (destination bucket) to explore its objects and you can also select destination location by exploring folders from object listing at right table.
  11. Select objects to copy from left side object listing.
  12. Now click on ‘Copy ->’ blue colored arrow directed towards Left to Right side at the middle of the transfer panel.

  13. This will ask for queue option, select desired queue option
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  14. Copy operation will be started in Bucket Explorer queue window.
  15. Click on Statistics tab of queue window to see Total copied, failed and pending files.
  16. See the list of successfully copied/ moved/ failed and skipped files in appropriate tab.
  17. If any operation failed then it retries automatically by default 3 times, retry limit can be changed using Preferences option of tools menu.
  18. After completion of automatic retry limit if any failed operation is still there then Retry button will be visible on Statistics panel, click on retry button to copy failed files.
  19. After successful completion of copying process close the queue window.
  20. You will find all the selected objects of source bucket have been copied to destination bucket at selected location.
  21. You've done

^ Transfer Panel:

Bucket Explorer provides a new Transfer panel for copy /move S3 Bucket and S3 Objects within same or different acccount.

Following are the different options to run Transfer Panel.
  • Choose Advanced from Tool men u & select Trasfer panel .
  • Choose Transfer panel option from Bucket Tool bar .
  • Select a bucket from bucket list and choose “Bucket -> Copy/Move” from Bucket Toolbar.This will open a new window for Transfer panel .
  • Right click on selected S3 file(s) of selected Bucket, choose Copy, Move & rename option -> Copy/Move .This will open a new window for Transfer panel .

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