A decent S3 bucket manager for Ubuntu

Question

I'm looking for a decent S3 bucket manager for Ubuntu (Gnome). I prefer it to integrate with Nautilus so it will look like just any other drive (a la WebDAV) but so far I haven't been able to find anything that I'd like to use on a daily basis.

What bucket managers do you use for Ubuntu or what bucket manager would you recommend?

UPDATE:

S3FS seems to be what I'd really want to use since it lets me integrate my buckets directly into my file-system. However, when trying S3FS I do not get the impression that it's ready for prime time.

I'm stunned by the fact that there are no decent bucket managers out there for Ubuntu/Gnome, guess I have to build it myself...

Solution 1

Why a separate file manager when there is s3fs, which makes it possible to mount S3 buckets via fuse?

That way you won't notice any difference between local files and your S3 bucket in nautilus.

Solution 2

TL;DR CrossFTP is in the Ubuntu app store, you must "buy" it for the purchase price of $0.00. So an Ubuntu One account is required, to install that way. For a mountable file-system try S3QL, which is available through a PPA.

Okay, it seems part of the confusion with s3fs is that there are THREE of them with mostly the same name with varying levels of development and stability. However, S3QL appears ready to go and slick. Another one worth checking out is s3backer.

For a GUI, I'm using CrossFTP. I've also installed dragondisk, but I personally need to access a custom (Dreamhost Objects) S3 server (non-amazon). S3QL will do that for you as well as CrossFTP. WARNING: CrossFTP is "open-core" software, though it is worth it!

Three similar packages that you shouldn't worry about (development has mostly stopped on all but the one noted)

• FuseOverAmazon (previously s3fs)
• s3fs-fuse
• s3fs
• s3fs

Wouldn't it be nice if that list was full of links so you knew what the heck I was talking about? Well, stackexchange won't let me post more than 2 links because I don't have enough rep points. How am I supposed to get them if I cannot be informative? :( The TL;DR part is the most important. You can look up open-core in wikipedia, another link I wasn't allowed to post!

Solution 3

DragonDisk is a decent Amazon S3 GUI client for Ubuntu.

Solution 4

Use s3cmd which has a sync command to transfer files either direction.

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Comments

[Admin]

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[Admin]

"when trying S3FS I do not get the impression that it's ready for prime time." What gave you that impression?

[Lukas]

I've looked at this in the past and couldn't get it to work back then. If it would work it would be totally what I'm looking for.

[Kim]

Maybe you should ask a question like "Why doesn't s3fs work?" ;)

[Lukas]

@Kim: Maybe. I was wondering if there where other 'decent' S3 managers available for Ubuntu before trying s3fs again. Guess not....

[Michael Warneke]

Why isn't s3fs in Ubuntu repos?

[Wolfram Arnold]

@Kim it looks like this hasn't made it into the Ubuntu packages. There is an old project for the Lucid distro on Launchpad. Am I to conclude from this that in the 2.5 years since your answer, something else has become more popular?

[user]

The link is dead.

[mitzip]

Thanks for the up vote! One more and I'm allowed to up vote this question.

[ThorSummoner]

is this meaningfully different from the aws cli suite?

[MaxNevermind]

"That way you won't notice any difference between local files and your S3 bucket in nautilus." I've noticed it right away, it's painfully slow, that's why I decided not to use it.

[Bartosz Firyn]

Why a separate file manager? To perform parallel upload/download because s3fs is pathologically slow. It does not utilize multiple connections and uploads files one after another.

[crypdick]

DragonDisk is no longer maintained.