AWS S3 tar.gz compressed files issue after download from S3

Why don't you use native AWS tool for creating snapshots? Why you make the process of backup your EC2 instance so complex?)

Moreover you can automate all this by using any backup vendors tools. For example, Cloudberry Backup Server Edition.

I'm having the same problems...

I did aws s3 sync some/local/folder s3://my-special-bucket/some/local/folder
and some of the files that got uploaded were .tar.gz files. Well, AWS decided that those should receive the metadata Content-Type: applicaton/x-tar instead of Content-Type: application/x-gzip. Highly aggravating. I had to write a script to list every file in my bucket and then fix the metadata for any file with the .tar.gz extension.

I have yet to see anyone explain how to download a tar.gz from an S3 bucket without AWS changing the format to a .tar and changing the config of the files. I need help to figure out how to down load a large (1.7 GB) tar.gz file.

Hello All,
I have the same issue, anyone has any solution or suggestion?

Hi anjalitrambadia, DSimon,

We took a quick look over the sync issues and wanted to get some more information.

If you wouldn't mind creating an issue on the AWS-CLI's Github (https://github.com/aws/aws-cli/), that will help us better track this. Including the version of your aws cli (aws --version) and a brief set up steps for reproduction will be really useful.

Thanks,
AWS-CLI team

Edited by: nateprewitt on May 12, 2020 6:11 PM

You should use --content-encoding "application/x-compressed-tar" option during S3 uploading:
aws s3 cp --content-encoding "application/x-compressed-tar".......