s3fs Input/output error

Hi,

i'm trying to set up a backup system with s3fs and the amazon s3 service. i followed this 2 guides: http://qugstart.com/blog/linux/how-to-mount-an-amazon-s3-bucket-as-virtual-drive-on-centos-5-2/ http://blog.eberly.org/2008/10/27/how-i-automated-my-backups-to-amazon-s3-using-rsync/

anyway making a tail to the /var/log/messages i get:

Aug 28 13:37:46 server s3fs:###response=403

i already tried creating the authentication file on /etc/passwd-s3fs and setting there the access and private key, passing it trough the command line, i checked several times the credentials and i used it with s3fox, and is working.

i also have set the time of the machine (with the date command) to be the same as the amazon S3 servers (i got the time of the S3 server uploading a file with the file manager)

not only rsync don't work, commands like ls or cp in the /mnt/s3 didn't work also.

any help of how i can solve/debug this?

Regards, Shadow.

From serverfault shadow_of__soul

• triple check the credentials in /etc/passwd-s3fs

  also, be sure the bucket name you're using is your bucket name (i.e., it is unique to you) (i.e., don't use a bucket name "test" or something like that because it is unlikely that you own/claimed the bucket name; bucket names are in a global namespace with everyone else's bucket names)

  also, s3fs does not create buckets; you would need to use another s3 tool to create the bucket first, and then mount it with s3fs

  shadow_of__soul : all of that has been checked, and it still didn't worked
  From Randy Rizun