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AWS EFS migration to Digitalocean Spaces
- Posted on April 17, 2025
- Cloud Migration ServicesDigitalOcean SpacesSpace Object StorageAWS
Asked by 7526fb4de03a4dfcb6a9e88306cbd9
How to migrate from AWS EFS to Digital Ocean Spaces? Is there a way to transfer from EFS to DO spaces? Or do I need to transfer to S3 before transferring to Spaces? But tried using DataSync, but having problems with mount and location of EFS
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Hi there,
AWS EFS and DigitalOcean Spaces are quite different. EFS is a network file system, while Spaces is an object storage. You can’t transfer directly from EFS to Spaces like you would with S3-to-S3.
What might work here is to mount your EFS volume on an EC2 instance and then copy the files locally or to a temporary directory and then use a tool like the AWS CLI or
rcloneto upload those files to DigitalOcean Spaces.If you’re using
rclone, it supports both S3 and Spaces out of the box:- Bobby