How to restore folders (or entire buckets) to Amazon S3 from Glacier?

Question

I changed the lifecycle for a bunch of my buckets on Amazon S3 so their storage class was set to Glacier. I did this using the online AWS Console. I now need those files a

Answer 1

If you use s3cmd you can use it to restore recursively pretty easily:

s3cmd restore --recursive s3://mybucketname/ 

I've also used it to restore just folders as well:

s3cmd restore --recursive s3://mybucketname/folder/