I'm trying to download an entire bucket to my local machine.
I'm aware that the command to do this is:
gsutil -m cp -r \ "gs://bucket_name/folder_name/" \ .
However, I'd like to specify exactly where this gets downloaded on my machine due to storage limitations.
Can anyone share any advice regarding this?
Thanks in advance,
Tommy
You can place your download files where you want to put by adding a destination url value to the last parameter of the gsutil cp command you are using, for example:
gsutil -m cp -r "gs://bucket_name" "D:\destination_folder"
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I am trying to backup all of our Google Cloud data to an external storage device.
There is a lot of data so I am attempting to download the entire bucket at once and am using the following command to do so, but it halts saying that there isn't enough storage on the device to complete the transfer.
gsutil -m cp -r \
"bucket name" \
.
What do I need to add to this command to download this information to my local D: drive? I have searched through the available docs and have not been able to find the answer.
I used the gsutil command that GCP provided for me automatically, but it seems to be trying to copy the files to a destination without enough storage to hold the needed data.
Remember that you are running the command from the Cloud Shell and not in a local terminal or Windows Command Line. If you inspect the Cloud Shell's file system/structure, it resembles more that of a Unix environment in which you can specify the destination like such instead: ~/bucketfiles/. Even a simple gsutil -m cp -R gs://bucket-name.appspot.com ./ will work since Cloud Shell can identify the ./ directory which is the current directory.
A workaround to this is to perform the command on your Windows Command Line. You would have to install Google Cloud SDK beforehand.
Alternatively, this can also be done in Cloud Shell, albeit with an extra step:
Download the bucket objects by running gsutil -m cp -R gs://bucket-name ~/ which will download it into the home directory in Cloud Shell
Transfer the files downloaded in the ~/ (home) directory from Cloud Shell to the local machine either through the User Interface or by running gcloud alpha cloud-shell scp.
I am trying to download a full bucket from my Google Cloud Storage. I am using gsutil and the CLOUD SHELL Terminal.
My current piece of code receives and error: "CommandException: Destination URL must name a directory, bucket, or bucket
subdirectory for the multiple source form of the cp command."
The code is:
gsutil -m cp -r gs://googleBucket D:\GOOGLE BACKUP
where googleBucket is the bucket and D:\GOOGLE BACKUP is the directory to my desired download location. Am I missing something here?
Any help is appreciated.
P.S. I am in no way tech savvy, and most of this is new to me.
download this way first
gsutil -m cp -r gs://googleBucket .
The . downloads it to current directory. Do an ls and you will see the download
Then go to the 3 dots and download locally. The 3 dots is to the right of open editor.
I have a problem downloading entire folder in GCP. How should I download the whole bucket? I run this code in GCP Shell Environment:
gsutil -m cp -R gs://my-uniquename-bucket ./C:\Users\Myname\Desktop\Bucket
and I get an error message: "CommandException: Destination URL must name a directory, bucket, or bucket subdirectory for the multiple source form of the cp command. CommandException: 7 files/objects could not be transferred."
Could someone please point out the mistake in the code line?
To download an entire bucket You must install google cloud SDK
then run this command
gsutil -m cp -R gs://project-bucket-name path/to/local
where path/to/local is your path of local storage of your machine
The error lies within the destination URL as specified by the error message.
I run this code in GCP Shell Environment
Remember that you are running the command from the Cloud Shell and not in a local terminal or Windows Command Line. Thus, it is throwing that error because it cannot find the path you specified. If you inspect the Cloud Shell's file system/structure, it resembles more that of a Unix environment in which you can specify the destination like such instead: ~/bucketfiles/. Even a simple gsutil -m cp -R gs://bucket-name.appspot.com ./ will work since Cloud Shell can identify the ./ directory which is the current directory.
A workaround to this issue is to perform the command on your Windows Command Line. You would have to install Google Cloud SDK beforehand.
Alternatively, this can also be done in Cloud Shell, albeit with an extra step:
Download the bucket objects by running gsutil -m cp -R gs://bucket-name ~/ which will download it into the home directory in Cloud Shell
Transfer the files downloaded in the ~/ (home) directory from Cloud Shell to the local machine either through the User Interface or by running gcloud alpha cloud-shell scp
Your destination path is invalid:
./C:\Users\Myname\Desktop\Bucket
Change to:
/Users/Myname/Desktop/Bucket
C: is a reserved device name. You cannot specify reserved device names in a relative path. ./C: is not valid.
There is not a one-button solution for downloading a full bucket to your local machine through the Cloud Shell.
The best option for an environment like yours (only using the Cloud Shell interface, without gcloud installed on your local system), is to follow a series of steps:
Downloading the whole bucket on the Cloud Shell environment
Zip the contents of the bucket
Upload the zipped file
Download the file through the browser
Clean up:
Delete the local files (local in the context of the Cloud Shell)
Delete the zipped bucket file
Unzip the bucket locally
This has the advantage of only having to download a single file on your local machine.
This might seem a lot of steps for a non-developer, but it's actually pretty simple:
First, run this on the Cloud Shell:
mkdir /tmp/bucket-contents/
gsutil -m cp -R gs://my-uniquename-bucket /tmp/bucket-contents/
pushd /tmp/bucket-contents/
zip -r /tmp/zipped-bucket.zip .
popd
gsutil cp /tmp/zipped-bucket.zip gs://my-uniquename-bucket/zipped-bucket.zip
Then, download the zipped file through this link: https://storage.cloud.google.com/my-uniquename-bucket/zipped-bucket.zip
Finally, clean up:
rm -rf /tmp/bucket-contents
rm /tmp/zipped-bucket.zip
gsutil rm gs://my-uniquename-bucket/zipped-bucket.zip
After these steps, you'll have a zipped-bucket.zip file in your local system that you can unzip with the tool of your choice.
Note that this might not work if you have too much data in your bucket and the Cloud Shell environment can't store all the data, but you could repeat the same steps on folders instead of buckets to have a manageable size.
We are using automation scripts to upload thousands of files from MAPR HDFS to GCP storage. Sometimes the files in the main bucket appear with tmp~!# suffix it causes failures in our pipeline.
Example:
gs://some_path/.pre-processing/file_name.gz.tmp~!#
We are using rsync -m and in certain cases cp -I
some_file | gsutil -m cp -I '{GCP_DESTINATION}'
gsutil -m rsync {MAPR_SOURCE} '{GCP_DESTINATION}'
It's possible that copy attempt failed and retried later from a different machine, eventually, we have both the file and another one with the tmp~!# suffix
I'd want to get rid of these files without actively looking for them.
we have gsutil 4.33, appreciate any lead. Thx
By using gcloud shell I have downloaded all my bucket but i couldn't find the downloaded files.
I used the command
gsutil -m cp -R gs://bucket/* .
P.S. Please don't make -1 on that post if I asked something wrong let me know in comments and I will learn how to ask a question correctly and save your time. Thanks
You used the command gsutil cp, as documented here:
https://cloud.google.com/storage/docs/gsutil/commands/cp
The parameters for this command are:
gsutil cp [OPTION]... src_url dst_url
So you used Option gsutil -m for to perform a parallel (multi-threaded/multi-processing) copy.
Then you also added -R to traverse all directories in your bucket
As "destination URL" you entered a "." which specified the current working directory.
So your files should be located in your home directory, or in any directory where you switched to using the cd command inside your command window.
It would download to the directory you were in when you ran the command. If you never changed the directory using $cd ... command, then it should be at the root. On a Mac, that would be Macintosh > Users > YourName.