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Welcome to the bucket-wipe wiki!

What is bucket-wipe?

bucket-wipe is a tool designed to enumerate a bucket and delete all of its contents in parallel threads.

Why use bucket-wipe?

This tool allows to delete non-empty bucket. At the end the bucket can be optionally deleted as well.

What it Does?

This tool permanently deletes all data from the bucket and, optionally, the bucket itself. Data cannot be recovered after deletion.

Examples of Use

1. Delete all objects in a bucket. When done keep the empty bucket. There is an external load balancer therefore ECS smart-client option is used.

java -jar bucket-wipe-1.10.jar -e <end-point> -a <access-key> -s <secret-key> --no-smart-client --keep-bucket <bucket-name>

2. Delete all objects in a bucket. When done delete the bucket. There is no external load balancer.

java -jar bucket-wipe-1.10.jar -e <end-point> -a <access-key> -s <secret-key> <bucket-name>