Offsite Backups to AWS S3

OttoFMS
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I’m using OttoFMS 4.2.2 and have Offsite Backups enabled. I can see that the backups are being created, but nothing is ending up in S3 and I think the reason is that the region isn’t being saved (correctly).

In the config UI when I complete all details and hit Test, it works as expected. When I go back in to edit those credentials the Region field is now empty and a test fails. Putting the region back in and it works for the test.

However, as I said above nothing is being uploaded and when I review /opt/OttoFMS/logs/otto-error.log I find:

ERROR : Attempt 1/3 failed with 1 errors and: AuthorizationHeaderMalformed: The authorization header is malformed; the region 'us-east-1' is wrong; expecting 'eu-west-2'
	status code: 400, request id: 8PY3MJ4W0165NTS0, host id: JFienHHdWD/z4FtepGSnz1+38efkerG6z3D/FlPonMtiQsm7/cPmc8LdICUWL0KwqX/Yi8/JXio=

Which is consistent with the behaviour in the UI - that the Region field isn’t being saved / used by default for connections to S3.

While we could create a bucket in eu-east-1, which is what it seems to want, we’d prefer to keep everything in the same DC if at all possible.

Thanks for any feedback.
Steve

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Hey Steve,

This issue was fixed in OttoFMS version 4.2.3. There is also an important security fix in 4.3.4 which you should install, I would recommend upgrading to the most recent version of OttoFMS by following the upgrade docs and re-entering your S3 credentials into the settings. Thank you!

-Kyle

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Thanks Kyle - updated, region saved - I’ll know in about 14 hours if it worked :slight_smile: