Amazon S3 backup stopped working after yestarday's update

Virtualmin
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Hi,

I use Ubuntu 18.04.02 with all updates and latest Virtualmin etc.

I installed some updates yesterday:

python3-lib2to3 (3.6.8-1~18.04) over (3.6.7-1~18.04)
python3.6 (3.6.8-1~18.04.1) over (3.6.7-1~18.04)
libpython3.6-stdlib:amd64 (3.6.8-1~18.04.1) over (3.6.7-1~18.04)
python3-distutils (3.6.8-1~18.04) over (3.6.7-1~18.04)
libssl1.1:amd64 (1.1.1-1ubuntu2.1~18.04.1) over (1.1.0g-2ubuntu4.3)
python3.6-minimal (3.6.8-1~18.04.1) over (3.6.7-1~18.04)
libpython3.6-minimal:amd64 (3.6.8-1~18.04.1) over (3.6.7-1~18.04)
libelf1:amd64 (0.170-0.4ubuntu0.1) over (0.170-0.4)
libglib2.0-0:amd64 (2.56.4-0ubuntu0.18.04.3) over (2.56.4-0ubuntu0.18.04.2)
libglib2.0-data (2.56.4-0ubuntu0.18.04.3) over (2.56.4-0ubuntu0.18.04.2)
openssl (1.1.1-1ubuntu2.1~18.04.1) over (1.1.0g-2ubuntu4.3)
libwww-perl (6.31-1ubuntu0.1) over (6.31-1)
libnet-ssleay-perl (1.84-1ubuntu0.1) over (1.84-1build1)
libio-socket-ssl-perl (2.060-3~ubuntu18.04.1) over (2.056-1)
libruby2.5:amd64 (2.5.1-1ubuntu1.4) over (2.5.1-1ubuntu1.2)
ruby2.5 (2.5.1-1ubuntu1.4) over (2.5.1-1ubuntu1.2)
ruby2.5-doc (2.5.1-1ubuntu1.4) over (2.5.1-1ubuntu1.2)
python2.7 (2.7.15-4ubuntu4~18.04) over (2.7.15~rc1-1ubuntu0.1)
libpython2.7-stdlib:amd64 (2.7.15-4ubuntu4~18.04) over (2.7.15~rc1-1ubuntu0.1)
python2.7-minimal (2.7.15-4ubuntu4~18.04) over (2.7.15~rc1-1ubuntu0.1)
libpython2.7-minimal:amd64 (2.7.15-4ubuntu4~18.04) over (2.7.15~rc1-1ubuntu0.1)

One of these brakes Amazon S3 backup, any idea how to fix, test etc?

Error on the S3 backup (frontend):
Uploading archive to Amazon’s S3 service …
… upload failed! Empty response to HTTP request. Headers were :

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Just to report we see something similar on 18.04.2 after the update but only on one out of 4 virtual servers on the same machine on a Full daily backup. The one that failed .tar.gz is normally around 800MB, the ones that succeeded were small <5MB. Tried increasing “Number of times to re-try FTP or S3 uploads” to 10 and still the same “Empty response” error

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Update: On checking our installation, found that this particular server didn’t actually have the aws client installed.
Installed awscli with pip and set the path via System Settings > Virtualmin Configuration > Backup and restore.

The problem virtual server is now uploading successfully to S3.

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well… in my case all packages were installed and were there before, it stopped working after the above updates…