Can we download an entire S3 bucket

Question

Do we have an option to download entire S3 bucket?

If there are more than one ways please brief me on those as well. Any help would be appreciated

Answer 1

Yes there are ways to download an entire S3 bucket. The latest AWS CLI tools released let you do it:

Before that you need to install these tools after that following command should do the job for you:

Command:

aws s3 sync s3://WholeBucket .

Output:

download: s3://WholeBucket/test.txt to test.txt
download: s3://WholeBucket/test2.txt to test2.txt

This is a one way sync that enables entire download. There would be no deletion of any existing files from the current directory until you specify it and it won't change or delete any files on S3.

You would also be able to do  S3 bucket to S3 bucket, or local to S3 bucket sync if required.

refer this if needed:

https://docs.aws.amazon.com/cli/latest/index.html

https://docs.aws.amazon.com/cli/latest/reference/s3/sync.html

Answer 2

Use s3cmd to download your bucket.

s3cmd --configure
s3cmd sync s3://bucketnamehere/folder /destination/folder

Answer 3

You can use the tool called Rclone. Below is a code sample in the Rclone documentation.

rclone sync /home/local/directory remote:bucket

Answer 4

To Download using AWS S3 CLI :

aws s3 cp s3://WholeBucket LocalFolder --recursive
aws s3 cp s3://Bucket/Folder LocalFolder --recursive

Answer 5

By using Visual Studio, if you don't have VS you can download it here

(((((download http://aws.amazon.com/visualstudio/

Install, then go to Visual Studio - AWS Explorer - S3 - Your bucket - Double click

In the window you will be able to select all files. Right click and download files.

Answer 6

Use this command with the AWS CLI:

aws s3 cp s3://bucketname. --recursive