What is the S3cmd Tool?

What is the S3cmd tool?

S3cmdis a tool to manage buckets and files an to invoke the S3 API. You can achieve similar action with AWS CLI. S3cmd runs on Linux and Mac.

Please follow the installation instruction described here if you’re interested in using the tool. Also please note you will need the following information to use the tool:

• access_key
• secret_key
• Contabo’s S3 URL

How do I setup s3cmd to work with Contabo’s Object Storage?

1. Run s3cmd –configure,
2. Specify your Access Key.
3. Specify your Secret Key.
4. Press return for Default Region.
5. Specify the S3 URL you need for S3 Endpoint.
6. Specify the S3 URL for DNS-style bucket+hostname:port template for accessing a bucket.
7. Specify a password of your choice for Encryption password.
8. Press return for Path to GPG program.
9. Press return for Use HTTPS protocol.
10. Press return for HTTP Proxy server name.
11. Confirm by specifying y.
12. Confirm again by specifying y.

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