S3 & s3-compatible storage management

Feature
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Hi,

If I’m not mistaken, it is currently not possible to set the s3 storage class from the remote manager. I believe it is something that would be nice to have.

Another possibility that I’d like to see, but maybe more complex to implement, would be for selected objects and/or all objects of a given bucket to be able to :

  • manage lifecycle rules
  • change storage class
  • restore from Glacier / Deep Archive
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Hi papaya241,

Thank you for the great suggestions!

You’re right — currently there’s no way to set the S3 storage class from the remote manager. We’ll add that.

Regarding your other requests:

• Change storage class — This is doable since rclone supports server-side copy with a different storage class.

• Restore from Glacier / Deep Archive — rclone has backend restore command for this, so we can expose it in the UI.

• Manage lifecycle rules — This one is trickier because rclone itself doesn’t support lifecycle rule management. We’d need to call the S3 API directly.

These are really good ideas to make RcloneView more useful for S3 users.

Thanks again!

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Hi,

Thank you for listening !

A few other ideas :

  • Show restore status in the UI (backend restore-status)
  • Mail notification when the restore process is completed
  • Show file versions on version–enabled buckets (exist through the following flags : s3-versions, s3-versions-at, s3-versions-deleted)
  • Delete file versions (backend clean-up hidden)

Those options would be very convenient to manage a S3 backup.