Exclude multiple folders using AWS S3 sync

Question

How to exclude multiple folders while using aws s3 syn ?

I tried :

# aws s3 sync  s3://inksedge-app-file-storage-bucket-prod-env   s3://inksedge-app-file-storage-bucket-test-env --exclude 'reportTemplate/* orders/* customers/*'

But still it's doing sync for folder "customer"

Output :

copy: s3://inksedge-app-file-storage-bucket-prod-env/customers/116/miniimages/IMG_4800.jpg to s3://inksedge-app-file-storage-bucket-test-env/customers/116/miniimages/IMG_4800.jpg
copy: s3://inksedge-app-file-storage-bucket-prod-env/customers/116/miniimages/DSC_0358.JPG to s3://inksedge-app-file-storage-bucket-test-env/customers/116/miniimages/DSC_0358.JPG

Answer 1

At last this worked for me:

aws s3 sync  s3://xxxx-app-file-storage-bucket-prod-env   s3://xxxx-app-file-storage-bucket-test-env --exclude 'customers/*'  --exclude 'orders/*'  --exclude 'reportTemplate/*'  

Hint: especially you have to enclose your wildcards and special characters in single or double quotes to work properly, below are example of matching characters. for more information regarding S3 commands, check it in amazon here.

*: Matches everything
?: Matches any single character
[sequence]: Matches any character in sequence
[!sequence]: Matches any character not in sequence

Answer 2

For those who are looking for sync some subfolder in a bucket, the exclude filter applies to the files and folders inside the folder that is be syncing, and not the path with respect to the bucket, example:

aws s3 sync s3://bucket1/bootstrap/ s3://bucket2/bootstrap --exclude '*' --include 'css/*'

would sync the folder bootstrap/css but not bootstrap/js neither bootstrap/fonts in the following folder tree:

bootstrap/
├── css/
│   ├── bootstrap.css
│   ├── bootstrap.min.css
│   ├── bootstrap-theme.css
│   └── bootstrap-theme.min.css
├── js/
│   ├── bootstrap.js
│   └── bootstrap.min.js
└── fonts/
    ├── glyphicons-halflings-regular.eot
    ├── glyphicons-halflings-regular.svg
    ├── glyphicons-halflings-regular.ttf
    └── glyphicons-halflings-regular.woff

That is, the filter is 'css/*' and not 'bootstrap/css/*'

More in https://docs.aws.amazon.com/cli/latest/reference/s3/index.html#use-of-exclude-and-include-filters