cloudnative-pg / cloudnative-pg/plugin-barman-cloud
"Transfering payloads in multiple chunks using aws-chunked is not supported" when uploading backups to Swift
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Hi there,
We're trying to use the Barman Cloud plugin for Cloud Native PG, together with our cloud provider which uses OpenStack and the Swift service (https://docs.openstack.org/swift/latest/) which provides an S3 compatibility layer (https://docs.openstack.org/swift/latest/s3_compat.html).
However, we are stuck with this error after trying to create a backup using a command like `kubectl cnpg backup -n staging postgresql --method=plugin --plugin-name=barman-cloud.cloudnative-pg.io`:
```
❯ kubectl get backups.postgresql.cnpg.io -n staging
NAME AGE CLUSTER METHOD PHASE ERROR
postgresql-20251021135824 19h postgresql plugin failed rpc error: code = Unknown desc = exit status 1
```
Diving into the details gives us this:
```
❯ kubectl logs -n staging $TARGET_POD -c plugin-barman-cloud \
--tail=100 | grep -E "ERROR|FATAL|panic"
{"level":"info","ts":"2025-10-22T06:03:03.631095849Z","logger":"barman-cloud-backup","msg":"2025-10-22 06:03:03,630 [103] ERROR: Upload error: An error occurred (NotImplemented) when calling the UploadPart operation: Transfering payloads in multiple chunks using aws-chunked is not supported. (worker 1)","pipe":"stderr","logging_pod":"postgresql-1"}
{"level":"info","ts":"2025-10-22T06:03:03.839758708Z","logger":"barman-cloud-backup","msg":"2025-10-22 06:03:03,839 [86] ERROR: Error received from upload worker: An error occurred (NotImplemented) when calling the UploadPart operation: Transfering payloads in multiple chunks using aws-chunked is not supported.","pipe":"stderr","logging_pod":"postgresql-1"}
{"level":"info","ts":"2025-10-22T06:03:03.864518275Z","logger":"barman-cloud-backup","msg":"2025-10-22 06:03:03,864 [86] ERROR: Backup failed uploading data (An error occurred (NotImplemented) when calling the UploadPart operation: Transfering payloads in multiple chunks using aws-chunked is not supported.)","pipe":"stderr","logging_pod":"postgresql-1"}
{"level":"info","ts":"2025-10-22T06:03:03.882516877Z","logger":"barman-cloud-backup","msg":"2025-10-22 06:03:03,882 [86] ERROR: Backup failed uploading backup.info file (An error occurred (NotImplemented) when calling the PutObject operation: Transfering payloads in multiple chunks using aws-chunked is not supported.)","pipe":"stderr","logging_pod":"postgresql-1"}
```
Based on feedback I received from our cloud provider, this transfer mode (`aws-chunked`) is not supported by the OpenStack/Swift version currently used. We would need to find a way to disable chunking of data somehow. The support person at their end suggested to set `payload_signing_enabled = false` in the AWS config. Can this be done with Barman, and if so, how? We have this configured via an `ObjectStore` in our Kubernetes manifest.
Thanks in advance! 🙏
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