I'm trying to clone a repo to a new repo, but already having issues at step 2. Lakectl refs-dump is not creating manifest file in the _lakefs folder..

Hey @Ion, can you send the steps you’re following? Also, does

refs-dump

return successfully? Can you copy the command and the output here?

I have lakectl installed on my laptop. Then I do lakectl config, then lakectl refs-dump Lakefs://silver This returns the Json values in the command line but does not store the file in the remote object store

It’s supposed to be stored under the storage namespace with

_lakefs/

prefix. So if the storage namespace is

<s3://bucket/path>

, then the objects would be in

<s3://bucket/path/_lakefs/>

Yes it's not showing up there

I was able to get the dump files written with Azure blob store

Can you share the exact cmd you ran?

Why does the guide look incorrect? The restore needs that json, whether it’s chain from the dump or loaded from a saved file

Strange it doesn't save anything to my blob with that

Do you get the json output?

I do, I saved it in a local file for now

Not sure I understand the question

Lakectl is using a Lakefs access key

If you get the json, it means the command ran successfully

Yes but why is it not saving it in azure😄

Can you do

lakectl repo list

and share the output?

I can't, I cannot open slack on my work laptop

What’s your version of lakefs/lakectl?

Lakefs 1.13

Do you see anything from the lakeFS logs?

Nope, no error msg

Do you see any object in your storage namespace under

_lakefs/

prefix?

Yes it contains 2000 objects

And none of them match any of the 3 objects in the json, right?

Well I haven't opened any of them one by one

No.. the strings provided in the json should be in that path

Ah I see what you mean

So the refs-dump was successful

Then the guide is giving a wrong statement

Can you send me a link to the guide?

Thanks for the feedback, we’ll fix the blog post