What steps will reproduce the problem? > Try to copy/move a file greater than 5G to S3. git annex copy large_file.tgz --to cloud What is the expected output? What do you see instead? > Looks like git-annex may not be using the Multipart Upload API: http://docs.aws.amazon.com/AmazonS3/latest/dev/uploadobjusingmpu.html > Expected transfer to succeed, instead this error is output: copy large-file.tgz (gpg) (checking cloud...) (to cloud...) Reading passphrase from file descriptor 12 Your proposed upload exceeds the maximum allowed size failed git-annex: copy: 1 failed What version of git-annex are you using? On what operating system? > OSX 10.8.2 Please provide any additional information below. annex [master●] % git annex status supported backends: SHA256E SHA1E SHA512E SHA224E SHA384E SHA256 SHA1 SHA512 SHA224 SHA384 WORM URL supported remote types: git S3 bup directory rsync web webdav glacier hook repository mode: indirect trusted repositories: 0 semitrusted repositories: 3 00000000-0000-0000-0000-000000000001 -- web BE1D8EC7-C64B-47DE-AD4E-2A50437532B4 -- cloud E84568BA-6A4B-4AA1-B622-605B9248EDB1 -- here (eric laptop) untrusted repositories: 0 dead repositories: 0 transfers in progress: none available local disk space: 169 gigabytes (+1 megabyte reserved) temporary directory size: 218 megabytes (clean up with git-annex unused) local annex keys: 24 local annex size: 8 gigabytes known annex keys: 25 known annex size: 8 gigabytes bloom filter size: 16 mebibytes (0% full) backend usage: SHA256E: 49 annex [master●] % git annex version git-annex version: 3.20130114 local repository version: 3 default repository version: 3 supported repository versions: 3 upgrade supported from repository versions: 0 1 2