How can I copy files bigger than 5 GB in Amazon S3?

Question

Amazon S3 REST API documentation says there\'s a size limit of 5gb for upload in a PUT operation. Files bigger than that have to be uploaded using multipart. Fine.

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Answer 1

I found this method to upload files bigger than 5gigs and modified it to work with a Boto copy procedure. here's the original: http://boto.cloudhackers.com/en/latest/s3_tut.html

import math
from boto.s3.connection import S3Connection
from boto.exception import S3ResponseError


conn = S3Connection(host=[your_host], aws_access_key_id=[your_access_key],
                    aws_secret_access_key=[your_secret_access_key])

from_bucket = conn.get_bucket('your_from_bucket_name')
key = from_bucket.lookup('my_key_name')
dest_bucket = conn.get_bucket('your_to_bucket_name')

total_bytes = key.size
bytes_per_chunk = 500000000

chunks_count = int(math.ceil(total_bytes/float(bytes_per_chunk)))
file_upload = dest_bucket.initiate_multipart_upload(key.name)
for i in range(chunks_count):
    offset = i * bytes_per_chunk
    remaining_bytes = total_bytes - offset
    print(str(remaining_bytes))
    next_byte_chunk = min([bytes_per_chunk, remaining_bytes])
    part_number = i + 1
    file_upload.copy_part_from_key(dest_bucket.name, key.name, part_number,
                                   offset, offset + next_byte_chunk - 1)
file_upload.complete_upload()