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Migrating S3 Data to ObjectiveFS

This article describes the steps to migrate data such as images, videos, documents, etc, from an existing S3 bucket to an ObjectiveFS filesystem.

Recommendations

We recommend using an ObjectiveFS filesystem and an EC2 instance in the same region as your existing S3 bucket for best performance and to save on data transfer cost.

Steps

Start an EC2 instance in the same region as your S3 bucket.

Configure AWS CLI.

Run aws configure and provide your existing AWS S3 bucket's credentials.
For details, see AWS CLI Configuration Guide

Install ObjectiveFS on the EC2 instance.

See installation guide.
See get started guide if you need to create a new ObjectiveFS filesystem.

Mount your ObjectiveFS filesystem.

# mount.objectivefs <filesystem> /ofs

Copy your existing S3 bucket's content to ObjectiveFS.

# mkdir /ofs/dest
# aws s3 cp s3://<existing S3 bucket> /ofs/dest --recursive

Note: For large migrations, aws s3 sync instead of cp lets you re-run the same command to resume an interrupted copy or pick up files added since the last run.

References

Last updated 2026-09-01 ObjectiveFS staff

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