S3 point in time restore

This is the repository for s3-pit-restore, a point in time restore tool for Amazon S3.

The typical scenario in which you may need this tool is when you have enabled versioning on an S3 bucket and want to restore some or all of the files to a certain point in time.

Doing this with the web interface is time consuming: Amazon S3 web management gui doesn't offer a simple way to do that on a massive scale.

With this tool you can easily restore a repository to a point in time with a simple command like this:

:~$ s3-pit-restore -b my-bucket -d my-restored-bucket -t "06-17-2016 23:59:50 +2"

Choosing the correct time and date to restore at is simply a matter of getting that information clicking the Versions: Show button from the S3 web gui and navigating through the, now appeared, versions timestamps.

Installing

With pip install:

:~# pip3 install s3-pit-restore

or clone the repository and launch:

:~# python3 setup.py install

Usage

s3-pit-restore can do a lot of interesting things. The base one is restoring an entire bucket to a previous state:

:~# s3-pit-restore -b my-bucket -d my-restored-bucket -t "06-17-2016 23:59:50 +2"

Another thing it can do is to restore a subfolder (prefix) of a bucket:

:~# s3-pit-restore -b my-bucket -d my-restored-subfolder -p mysubfolder -t "06-17-2016 23:59:50 +2"

You can also speedup the download if you have bandwidth using more parallel workers:

:~# s3-pit-restore -b my-bucket -d my-restored-subfolder -p mysubfolder -t "06-17-2016 23:59:50 +2" --max-workers 100

If want to restore a well defined time span, you can use a starting and ending timestamp (a month in this example):

:~# s3-pit-restore -b my-bucket -d my-restored-subfolder -p mysubfolder -f "05-01-2016 00:00:00 +2" -t "06-01-2016 00:00:00 +2"

Command line options

usage: s3-pit-restore [-h] -b BUCKET [-p PREFIX] [-t TIMESTAMP]
                      [-f FROM_TIMESTAMP] -d DEST [-e] [-v] [--dry-run]
                      [--debug] [--test] [--max-workers MAX_WORKERS]

optional arguments:
  -h, --help            show this help message and exit
  -b BUCKET, --bucket BUCKET
                        s3 bucket to restore from
  -p PREFIX, --prefix PREFIX
                        s3 path to restore from
  -t TIMESTAMP, --timestamp TIMESTAMP
                        final point in time to restore at
  -f FROM_TIMESTAMP, --from-timestamp FROM_TIMESTAMP
                        starting point in time to restore from
  -d DEST, --dest DEST  path where recovering to
  -e, --enable-glacier  enable recovering from glacier
  -v, --verbose         print verbose informations from s3 objects
  --dry-run             execute query without transferring files
  --debug               enable debug output
  --test                s3 pit restore testing
  --max-workers MAX_WORKERS
                        max number of concurrent download requests

Testing

s3-pit-restore comes with a testing suite. You can run it with:

./s3-pit-restore -b my-bucket -d /tmp/ --test