Backup to S3 compatible: problem with location (public)

Submitted by pban02 on Tue, 11/03/2015 - 16:03 Pro Licensee

We are trying to backup to an S3 compatible storage. This fails, because Virtualmin expects the location to be one of the AWS locations. Other S3 compatible storages don't have the same locations and may in fact have no location at all. Is there a way to configure or work around this?

When trying to create a bucket the following error messages is thrown:

Failed to save bucket : Failed to create S3 bucket : The specified location constraint is not valid.

This is with Virtualmin 4.13 on Debian 7 and it is the same with Virtualmin 4.18 on Ubuntu 14.04 LTS

Thanks in advance for any hints.

Status: 
Closed (fixed)

Comments

Submitted by JamieCameron on Tue, 11/03/2015 - 21:31

So does this S3 compatible storage have any locations at all, or does it just expect the location requested to be unspecified?

Submitted by pban02 on Wed, 11/04/2015 - 10:42 Pro Licensee

It has locations, but it is included in the server name, so it does not expect them to be specified separately.

So an option in the Location drop down list like "No specified location" might be a way to take care of it.

Thanks Jamie.

Submitted by JamieCameron on Wed, 11/04/2015 - 21:42

Sure - I will add this in the next release.

Submitted by Issues on Wed, 11/18/2015 - 21:46

Automatically closed -- issue fixed for 2 weeks with no activity.

Submitted by pban02 on Fri, 11/27/2015 - 07:04 Pro Licensee

Just curious - did this make it into a release yet? Thanks in advance Jamie

Submitted by JamieCameron on Fri, 11/27/2015 - 19:42

Not yet - it will be in the 5.0 release.

Submitted by pban02 on Mon, 11/30/2015 - 03:46 Pro Licensee

Thanks Jamie.

Can you suggest a work around? Is there anyway to get Virtualmin to make the backup to our URL?

Thanks in advance.

Submitted by andreychek on Mon, 11/30/2015 - 15:14

You can manually apply this fix prior to Virtualmin 5.0, by editing /usr/share/webmin/virtual-server/edit_bucket.cgi, and there, look for lines 46 and 47, which look like this:

&ui_select("location", "us-west-1",
   [ &s3_list_locations(@$account) ]));

Remove those two lines, and replace them with these three lines:

&ui_select("location", "",
   [ [ "", $text{'default'} ],
     &s3_list_locations(@$account) ]));

Once you do that, restart Webmin, and then changes should then be available.

Submitted by pban02 on Tue, 12/01/2015 - 02:54 Pro Licensee

Many thanks - that's awesome :)