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I have a problem downloading entire folder in GCP. How should I download the whole bucket? I run this code in GCP Shell Environment:
gsutil -m cp -R gs://my-uniquename-bucket ./C:\Users\Myname\Desktop\Bucket
and I get an error message: "CommandException: Destination URL must name a directory, bucket, or bucket subdirectory for the multiple source form of the cp command. CommandException: 7 files/objects could not be transferred."
Could someone please point out the mistake in the code line?
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I would suggest downloading the files with gsutil . However if you have a large number of files to transfer you might want to use the gsutil -m option, to perform a parallel (multi-threaded/multi-processing) copy: gsutil -m cp -R gs://your-bucket .
In the Explorer panel, expand your project and dataset, then select the table. In the details panel, click Export and select Export to Cloud Storage. In the Export table to Google Cloud Storage dialog: For Select Google Cloud Storage location, browse for the bucket, folder, or file where you want to export the data.
Upload and downloading files and folders Files and folders can only be uploaded to and downloaded from your home directory. In your Cloud Shell Editor Explorer, right-click a directory or file and then click Copy Download Link, Download, or Upload Files. Alternatively, you can navigate to File > Download/Upload Files.
In the Google Cloud console, go to the VM instances page. In the list of virtual machine instances, click SSH in the row of the instance that you want to connect to. After the connection is established, click the download icon download. The download dialog opens.
To download an entire bucket You must install google cloud SDK
then run this command
gsutil -m cp -R gs://project-bucket-name path/to/local
where path/to/local is your path of local storage of your machine
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The error lies within the destination URL as specified by the error message.
I run this code in GCP Shell Environment
Remember that you are running the command from the Cloud Shell and not in a local terminal or Windows Command Line. Thus, it is throwing that error because it cannot find the path you specified. If you inspect the Cloud Shell's file system/structure, it resembles more that of a Unix environment in which you can specify the destination like such instead: ~/bucketfiles/. Even a simple gsutil -m cp -R gs://bucket-name.appspot.com ./ will work since Cloud Shell can identify the ./ directory which is the current directory.
A workaround to this issue is to perform the command on your Windows Command Line. You would have to install Google Cloud SDK beforehand.
Alternatively, this can also be done in Cloud Shell, albeit with an extra step:
gsutil -m cp -R gs://bucket-name ~/ which will download it into the home directory in Cloud Shell~/ (home) directory from Cloud Shell to the local machine either through the User Interface or by running gcloud alpha cloud-shell scp
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