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+# Copyright 2012 Google Inc. All Rights Reserved. |
+# |
+# Licensed under the Apache License, Version 2.0 (the "License"); |
+# you may not use this file except in compliance with the License. |
+# You may obtain a copy of the License at |
+# |
+# http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0 |
+# |
+# Unless required by applicable law or agreed to in writing, software |
+# distributed under the License is distributed on an "AS IS" BASIS, |
+# WITHOUT WARRANTIES OR CONDITIONS OF ANY KIND, either express or implied. |
+# See the License for the specific language governing permissions and |
+# limitations under the License. |
+ |
+from gslib.help_provider import HELP_NAME |
+from gslib.help_provider import HELP_NAME_ALIASES |
+from gslib.help_provider import HELP_ONE_LINE_SUMMARY |
+from gslib.help_provider import HelpProvider |
+from gslib.help_provider import HELP_TEXT |
+from gslib.help_provider import HelpType |
+from gslib.help_provider import HELP_TYPE |
+ |
+_detailed_help_text = (""" |
+<B>OVERVIEW</B> |
+ If you use gsutil in large production tasks (such as uploading or |
+ downloading many GB of data each night), there are a number of things |
+ you can do to help ensure success. Specifically, this section discusses |
+ how to script large production tasks around gsutil's resumable transfer |
+ mechanism. |
+ |
+ |
+<B>BACKGROUND ON RESUMABLE TRANSFERS</B> |
+ First, it's helpful to understand gsutil's resumable transfer mechanism, |
+ and how your script needs to be implemented around this mechanism to work |
+ reliably. gsutil uses the resumable transfer support in the boto library |
+ when you attempt to upload or download a file larger than a configurable |
+ threshold (by default, this threshold is 1MB). When a transfer fails |
+ partway through (e.g., because of an intermittent network problem), |
+ boto uses a randomized binary exponential backoff-and-retry strategy: |
+ wait a random period between [0..1] seconds and retry; if that fails, |
+ wait a random period between [0..2] seconds and retry; and if that |
+ fails, wait a random period between [0..4] seconds, and so on, up to a |
+ configurable number of times (the default is 6 times). Thus, the retry |
+ actually spans a randomized period up to 1+2+4+8+16+32=63 seconds. |
+ |
+ If the transfer fails each of these attempts with no intervening |
+ progress, gsutil gives up on the transfer, but keeps a "tracker" file |
+ for it in a configurable location (the default location is ~/.gsutil/, |
+ in a file named by a combination of the SHA1 hash of the name of the |
+ bucket and object being transferred and the last 16 characters of the |
+ file name). When transfers fail in this fashion, you can rerun gsutil |
+ at some later time (e.g., after the networking problem has been |
+ resolved), and the resumable transfer picks up where it left off. |
+ |
+ |
+<B>SCRIPTING DATA TRANSFER TASKS</B> |
+ To script large production data transfer tasks around this mechanism, |
+ you can implement a script that runs periodically, determines which file |
+ transfers have not yet succeeded, and runs gsutil to copy them. Below, |
+ we offer a number of suggestions about how this type of scripting should |
+ be implemented: |
+ |
+ 1. When resumable transfers fail without any progress 6 times in a row |
+ over the course of up to 63 seconds, it probably won't work to simply |
+ retry the transfer immediately. A more successful strategy would be to |
+ have a cron job that runs every 30 minutes, determines which transfers |
+ need to be run, and runs them. If the network experiences intermittent |
+ problems, the script picks up where it left off and will eventually |
+ succeed (once the network problem has been resolved). |
+ |
+ 2. If your business depends on timely data transfer, you should consider |
+ implementing some network monitoring. For example, you can implement |
+ a task that attempts a small download every few minutes and raises an |
+ alert if the attempt fails for several attempts in a row (or more or less |
+ frequently depending on your requirements), so that your IT staff can |
+ investigate problems promptly. As usual with monitoring implementations, |
+ you should experiment with the alerting thresholds, to avoid false |
+ positive alerts that cause your staff to begin ignoring the alerts. |
+ |
+ 3. There are a variety of ways you can determine what files remain to be |
+ transferred. We recommend that you avoid attempting to get a complete |
+ listing of a bucket containing many objects (e.g., tens of thousands |
+ or more). One strategy is to structure your object names in a way that |
+ represents your transfer process, and use gsutil prefix wildcards to |
+ request partial bucket listings. For example, if your periodic process |
+ involves downloading the current day's objects, you could name objects |
+ using a year-month-day-object-ID format and then find today's objects by |
+ using a command like gsutil ls gs://bucket/2011-09-27-*. Note that it |
+ is more efficient to have a non-wildcard prefix like this than to use |
+ something like gsutil ls gs://bucket/*-2011-09-27. The latter command |
+ actually requests a complete bucket listing and then filters in gsutil, |
+ while the former asks Google Storage to return the subset of objects |
+ whose names start with everything up to the *. |
+ |
+ For data uploads, another technique would be to move local files from a "to |
+ be processed" area to a "done" area as your script successfully copies files |
+ to the cloud. You can do this in parallel batches by using a command like: |
+ |
+ gsutil -m cp -R to_upload/subdir_$i gs://bucket/subdir_$i |
+ |
+ where i is a shell loop variable. Make sure to check the shell $status |
+ variable is 0 after each gsutil cp command, to detect if some of the copies |
+ failed, and rerun the affected copies. |
+ |
+ With this strategy, the file system keeps track of all remaining work to |
+ be done. |
+ |
+ 4. If you have really large numbers of objects in a single bucket |
+ (say hundreds of thousands or more), you should consider tracking your |
+ objects in a database instead of using bucket listings to enumerate |
+ the objects. For example this database could track the state of your |
+ downloads, so you can determine what objects need to be downloaded by |
+ your periodic download script by querying the database locally instead |
+ of performing a bucket listing. |
+ |
+ 5. Make sure you don't delete partially downloaded files after a transfer |
+ fails: gsutil picks up where it left off (and performs an MD5 check of |
+ the final downloaded content to ensure data integrity), so deleting |
+ partially transferred files will cause you to lose progress and make |
+ more wasteful use of your network. You should also make sure whatever |
+ process is waiting to consume the downloaded data doesn't get pointed |
+ at the partially downloaded files. One way to do this is to download |
+ into a staging directory and then move successfully downloaded files to |
+ a directory where consumer processes will read them. |
+ |
+ 6. If you have a fast network connection, you can speed up the transfer of |
+ large numbers of files by using the gsutil -m (multi-threading / |
+ multi-processing) option. Be aware, however, that gsutil doesn't attempt to |
+ keep track of which files were downloaded successfully in cases where some |
+ files failed to download. For example, if you use multi-threaded transfers |
+ to download 100 files and 3 failed to download, it is up to your scripting |
+ process to determine which transfers didn't succeed, and retry them. A |
+ periodic check-and-run approach like outlined earlier would handle this case. |
+ |
+ If you use parallel transfers (gsutil -m) you might want to experiment with |
+ the number of threads being used (via the parallel_thread_count setting |
+ in the .boto config file). By default, gsutil uses 24 threads. Depending |
+ on your network speed, available memory, CPU load, and other conditions, |
+ this may or may not be optimal. Try experimenting with higher or lower |
+ numbers of threads, to find the best number of threads for your environment. |
+""") |
+ |
+ |
+class CommandOptions(HelpProvider): |
+ """Additional help about using gsutil for production tasks.""" |
+ |
+ help_spec = { |
+ # Name of command or auxiliary help info for which this help applies. |
+ HELP_NAME : 'prod', |
+ # List of help name aliases. |
+ HELP_NAME_ALIASES : ['production', 'resumable', 'resumable upload', |
+ 'resumable transfer', 'resumable download', |
+ 'scripts', 'scripting'], |
+ # Type of help: |
+ HELP_TYPE : HelpType.ADDITIONAL_HELP, |
+ # One line summary of this help. |
+ HELP_ONE_LINE_SUMMARY : 'Scripting production data transfers with gsutil', |
+ # The full help text. |
+ HELP_TEXT : _detailed_help_text, |
+ } |