Thanks for creating this plugin.
I'm newer to FreeNAS and have been playing with a few configurations. I have an Amazon S3 account and wanted to leverage my Free Tier and installed this plugin to try and learn a bit. Unfortunately, I've been mostly unsuccessful in using it, though, I have been able to get a file uploaded so I know the installation and configuration are ok.
In the interest of constructive feedback, here's what I have seen.
I installed and added storage via the GUI but I didn't quite understand the source and destination options. I initially thought the source and destination was like the Add Storage dialog with source and destination mount points within the jail. Oops. Good thing it wasn't working for me. haha.
I tried again, using the source watch dir within my jail but could understand the destination. I tried various iterations of my bucket/folder (s3://bucket/folder, /bucket/folder, /differentbucket/folder, etc.).
From my perspective, the service was on but not working. I'm a FreeNAS rube so perhaps I should have been watching a particular logdir other than messages? It also wasn't running as a service to verify status.
I ran s3cmd --help and then googled up
http://s3tools.org/usage and dropped to the shell.
I was able to write a text file and then send it to my s3://bucket/folder. When I tried an mp3, it failed with:
{{{
[root@s3cmd_1 ~]# s3cmd put ~/testfile.1 s3://bucket/folder/
/root/testfile.1 -> s3://bucket/folder/testfile.1 [1 of 1]
20 of 20 100% in 0s 101.72 B/s done
WARNING: Redirected to: bucket.region.amazonaws.com
/root/testfile.1 -> s3://bucket/folder/testfile.1 [1 of 1]
20 of 20 100% in 0s 32.63 B/s done
}}}
{{{
# s3cmd put ~/FloatOn s3://bucket/folder/
/root/FloatOn -> s3://bucket/folder/FloatOn [1 of 1]
1736704 of 6477474 26% in 1s 1418.16 kB/s failed
WARNING: Upload failed: /aws3/FloatOn ([Errno 32] Broken pipe)
WARNING: Retrying on lower speed (throttle=0.00)
WARNING: Waiting 3 sec...
}}}
This repeated over and over. Initially I suspected that it may have been because of my jail mount so I copied the file into my home within the jail, stripped spaces, then file extension.
I haven't collected a packet trace, but I can if it would be helpful.
My takeaway suggestions would be:
- Update OP with link to CLI usage.
- Plugin settings menu needs context and example usage. Do I use s3:// prefix, /, bucket/folder, etc?
- Any additional information, anywhere, will be helpful. I didn't see it running in top but I saw Python. Is it possible to add it as a service to verify whether it's running?
- The CLI tools were able to help me determine the configuration was good and even put a file. If there's a log, perhaps a path to it in the GUI settings would help. I just kept refreshing my AWS interface and watched iftop for progress.
Thanks.
