Re: Running FITS over an S3 bucket

From: Howard Ding <hading2_at_nyob>
Date: Fri, 7 Jan 2022 13:34:50 -0500
To: CODE4LIB_at_LISTS.CLIR.ORG
You could use something like rclone to mount the S3 bucket locally. This 
is not always ideal, but in many circumstances it works well enough.

Howard

hding2_at_brynmawr.edu

On 1/7/22 12:48 PM, Chris Mayo wrote:
> Hi all,
>
> I've recently become caretaker for a large audio archive, both physical and
> digital. I'm planning a large-scale digitization project for the physicals
> that haven't been digitized yet, but the digital collection consists of
> both born-digital material and files that have been digitized from the
> physical collection at various points over the last 25 years.
>
> I've been requested to re-digitize files that don't meet modern standards,
> so I need to run FITS over the entire digital archive. The hang-up is that
> the archive lives in an Amazon S3 bucket which is the backend of the system
> we use to serve files to clients. I can't figure out how to point FITS at
> the bucket, since it's not mounted to my local system, and I can't format
> the path properly. Has anyone else tried this?
>
> Thanks,
> Chris
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