When the clocks of EC2 instance are skewed then the upload to S3 fails

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It's known that in EC2 instances time drift occurs. Due to that, if one has setup the backups in S3 buckets, the pbm commands start failing.

Example - 

ubuntu@ip-xxx-xx-xxx-xxx:~$ pbm status

Error: get status of backups: get PITR chunks: get chunks list: get backup list: RequestTimeTooSkewed: The difference between the request time and the current time is too large.

status code: 403, request id:

 

A potential fix might be that we can use this parameter correctClockSkew,  and set it to true

Link -  https://stackoverflow.com/questions/43641618/how-do-i-solve-the-aws-error-the-difference-between-the-request-time-and-the-c

 

However, I don't think this option is exposed to the users yet. Since this is a backup breaking issue that sneaks up overtime, I'm marking this as high priority. Of course, you're welcome to change it if you feel otherwise.

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Checked on ubuntu 20.04 EC2 instance from AWS

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Aaditya Dubey December 10, 2023 at 8:12 AM

Hi ,

Closing the report, no activity for a long!

Aaditya Dubey August 1, 2022 at 9:46 AM

Hi  ,

Thank you for the report.
Please let me know if issue is still persists.

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Created April 19, 2022 at 1:46 PM
Updated December 10, 2023 at 8:12 AM
Resolved December 10, 2023 at 8:12 AM