Is it possible to move folders in R2?

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I have quite a few files and ‘folders’ that I need to move to the root of the R2 bucket. Is there an easy way to do that?

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or…

Is it possible for the R2 migration tool to migrate data into a different folder? What I need to do:

S3bucketROOT/folder1 —> R2bucketROOT/

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There are tools like rclone ad cyberduck that work with the S3 API that I would recommend using for bulk moving tasks.

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Yeah, I’m working with rclone right now. However, it is SOOOOOO slow.

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Are you downloading the files → changing the name → uploading? You can use server side items to handle it quicker

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It looks like server side is default. I see this in progress:

Server Side Copies:587942 @ 8.940 GiB

But to copy 10GB has taken well over 24 hours and still isn’t done. Tons of small files, but still…

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Anyone have any other ideas?

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Should anyone actually ever have an odd use case where you need to remove an S3 folder/prefix during an R2 migration, here’s what I did:

I used s3p (Google as I can’t post links) to do an S3 > S3 migration.
Example: s3bucket1/folder > s3bucket2/

Then from there I did the R2 migration.
Example s3bucket2/ > R2bucket/

The default tools won’t easily let you remove a prefix and both the s3 cli and rclone were going to take days with just 10GB (600k files) of data. I hope that eventually prefixes can be edited in the R2 web console and/or we have the ability to change prefixes in the Super Slurper. In the meantime though, this convoluted process works.