According to Amazon 
http://docs.amazonwebservices.com/AmazonS3/2006-03-01/gsg/

"Each object can hold up to 5 GB of data."

You may have got lucky with the 5. 2 file and it finally failed on the 5.5

Thanks,

Fr. Robert Bower
Batushka's Web Hosting & Design
frrob...@batushkas.com
574.850.7982
http://www.batushkas.com
http://www.batushkas.net



Alex Efros wrote:
> Hi!
>
> I've large file (~5.5 GB - /home dir backup), and tried several times to
> upload it to S3 using s3cmd 0.9.8.4. Each time it took several hours and
> finally failed. I've just tried to upgrade to 0.9.9, it also failed but
> with another error message (see at bottom of this message).
>
>     All other ~1600 files uploaded without troubles using 'sync' command,
>     while this file failed both using 'sync' and 'put' commands.
>     Also I should note this file is largest from all ~1600 files - next
>     large file size is ~5.2GB and it uploaded normally.
>
> # time md5sum home.full.20090302_031507.tar.gpg 
> d3722332b583f2d2e5f53413ee14fe57  home.full.20090302_031507.tar.gpg
>
> real    2m10.812s
> user    0m25.490s
> sys     0m8.570s
>
> # ls -l home.full.20090302_031507.tar.gpg
> -rw-r--r-- 1 backup backup 5586801747 2009-03-02 03:57 
> home.full.20090302_031507.tar.gpg
>
> # time s3cmd put home.full.20090302_031507.tar.gpg s3://backup.ourcompany
> WARNING: MD5 Sums don't match!
> WARNING: MD5 Sums don't match!
> WARNING: MD5 Sums don't match!
> WARNING: MD5 Sums don't match!
> ERROR: Upload of 'home.full.20090302_031507.tar.gpg' failed too many times. 
> Skipping that file.
>
> real    303m38.849s
> user    7m56.840s
> sys     1m8.640s
>
> # time /etc/cron.daily/backup_to_s3
> Compiling list of local files...
> Retrieving list of remote files...
> Found 1663 local files, 1632 remote files
> Verifying checksums...
> Summary: 8 local files to upload, 0 remote files to delete
> WARNING: MD5 Sums don't match!
> WARNING: MD5 Sums don't match!
> WARNING: MD5 Sums don't match!
> WARNING: MD5 Sums don't match!
> ERROR: home.full.20090302_031507.tar.gpg: upload failed too many times. 
> Skipping that file.
> File 'mysql.incr.20090304_030008.tar.gpg' stored as 
> s3://backup.ourcompany/mysql.incr.20090304_030008.tar.gpg (80084541 bytes in 
> 171.0 seconds, 457.26 kB/s) [2 of 8]
> File 'home.incr.20090304_030010.tar.gpg' stored as 
> s3://backup.ourcompany/home.incr.20090304_030010.tar.gpg (14791469 bytes in 
> 1.9 seconds, 7.47 MB/s) [3 of 8]
> File 'mysql.incr.20090304_030010.tar.gpg' stored as 
> s3://backup.ourcompany/mysql.incr.20090304_030010.tar.gpg (1554 bytes in 0.0 
> seconds, 9.43 MB/s) [4 of 8]
> File 'svn.incr.20090304_030010.tar.gpg' stored as 
> s3://backup.ourcompany/svn.incr.20090304_030010.tar.gpg (3553 bytes in 0.0 
> seconds, 22.17 MB/s) [5 of 8]
> File 'config.incr.20090304_071720.tar.gpg' stored as 
> s3://backup.ourcompany/config.incr.20090304_071720.tar.gpg (32459 bytes in 
> 0.3 seconds, 125.75 kB/s) [6 of 8]
> File 'home.incr.20090304_071720.tar.gpg' stored as 
> s3://backup.ourcompany/home.incr.20090304_071720.tar.gpg (2705201 bytes in 
> 1.0 seconds, 2.60 MB/s) [7 of 8]
> File 'mysql.incr.20090304_071720.tar.gpg' stored as 
> s3://backup.ourcompany/mysql.incr.20090304_071720.tar.gpg (979 bytes in 0.0 
> seconds, 6.06 MB/s) [8 of 8]
> Done. Uploaded 97619756 bytes in 34733.5 seconds, 2.74 kB/s
>
> real    599m43.248s
> user    10m35.850s
> sys     2m7.890s
>
>
> 0.9.9 fail in different way:
>
> # time s3cmd put home.full.20090302_031507.tar.gpg s3://backup.ourcompany
> home.full.20090302_031507.tar.gpg -> s3://backup.ourcompany/  [1 of 1]
>  5586801747 of 5586801747   100% in 11194s   487.39 kB/s  done
> ERROR: S3 error: 400 (MalformedXML): The XML you provided was not well-formed 
> or did not validate against our published schema
>
> real    186m34.334s
> user    2m27.220s
> sys     0m28.430s
>
>
>   

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