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HoneyBuddha
HoneyBuddha

Reputation: 798

gsutil cp fails - "Could not create manifest file"

I am having some trouble with gsutil copies (that I was using for a bulk transfer of unstructured data to the Google Cloud Storage service. 

gsutil -m cp -L samsunghd.log -c -p -R ./*.* gs://samsung2101

Fails instantly and produces the following error message:

"CommandException: Could not create manifest file"

It worked once and only once from Cloud Tools for Powershell that I downloaded as part of the entire Google Cloud SDK using the Cloud SDK installer.

After that, all attempts cause the same error - even the transfer of a single file. By eliminating all the other Options, I have been able to isolate it to the -L (logging function).

So, gsutil -m cp -L samsunghd.log -c -p -R ./*.* gs://samsung2101

Fails instantly and produces the error message

"CommandException: Could not create manifest file"

But, gsutil -m cp -c -p -R ./*.* gs://samsung2101

is currently working without problems. Unfortunately, this means I dont get to have log of failures/successful transfers or take advantage of the log-based resume in case of interruption.

Any help would be greatly appreciated. This issue does not seem to have much community discussion / support available.

Many thanks!

Upvotes: 2

Views: 1237

Answers (1)

Serge Hendrickx
Serge Hendrickx

Reputation: 1416

Could you try running Powershell as administrator? (Right-click -> run as administrator).

The error is an IO error, so it might be permissions-related

 except IOError:
      raise CommandException('Could not create manifest file.')

You can find more info at line 3278 on https://github.com/GoogleCloudPlatform/gsutil/blob/master/gslib/copy_helper.py

Upvotes: 3

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