title: What does BucketAlreadyOwnedByYou error (from Amazon S3) actually mean? I can't find any reason affecting me
body: <p>I am using Amazon S3 to back up my Rails app's mysql database. And I am using astrails-safe plugin to do that and I got the "Your previous request to create the named bucket succeeded and you already own it. (AWS::S3::BucketAlreadyOwnedByYou)" error back whenever I try to update it. </p>
  
  <p>I have checked that the folder in which I am going to back up is there in my account already. It's just that I can't upload the files from the code (using astrails-safe).</p>
  
  <p>ok. When I run this code </p>
  
  <blockquote>
    <p>sudo astrails-safe
    /Users/pww/sites/web_apps/myapp/trunk/lib/backup/local.rb</p>
  </blockquote>
  
  <p>, I got the following error.</p>
  
  <pre><code>/opt/local/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/aws-s3-0.6.2/lib/aws/s3/error.rb:38:in `raise': Your previous request to create the named bucket succeeded and you already own it. (AWS::S3::BucketAlreadyOwnedByYou)
      from /opt/local/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/aws-s3-0.6.2/lib/aws/s3/base.rb:72:in `request'
      from /opt/local/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/aws-s3-0.6.2/lib/aws/s3/base.rb:88:in `put'
      from /opt/local/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/aws-s3-0.6.2/lib/aws/s3/bucket.rb:79:in `create'
      from /opt/local/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/astrails-safe-0.2.7/lib/astrails/safe/s3.rb:29:in `save'
      from /opt/local/lib/ruby/1.8/benchmark.rb:308:in `realtime'
      from /opt/local/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/astrails-safe-0.2.7/lib/astrails/safe/s3.rb:28:in `save'
      from /opt/local/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/astrails-safe-0.2.7/lib/astrails/safe/sink.rb:8:in `process'
      from /opt/local/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/astrails-safe-0.2.7/lib/astrails/safe/backup.rb:15:in `run'
      from /opt/local/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/astrails-safe-0.2.7/lib/astrails/safe/backup.rb:12:in `each'
      from /opt/local/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/astrails-safe-0.2.7/lib/astrails/safe/backup.rb:12:in `run'
      from /opt/local/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/astrails-safe-0.2.7/lib/astrails/safe.rb:53:in `safe'
      from /opt/local/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/astrails-safe-0.2.7/lib/astrails/safe/config/node.rb:51:in `each'
      from /opt/local/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/astrails-safe-0.2.7/lib/astrails/safe/config/node.rb:51:in `each'
      from /opt/local/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/astrails-safe-0.2.7/lib/astrails/safe.rb:52:in `safe'
      from /opt/local/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/astrails-safe-0.2.7/lib/astrails/safe.rb:46:in `each'
      from /opt/local/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/astrails-safe-0.2.7/lib/astrails/safe.rb:46:in `safe'
      from /Users/phyowaiwin/sites/web_apps/myapp/trunk/lib/backup/local.rb:1
      from /opt/local/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/astrails-safe-0.2.7/bin/astrails-safe:50:in `load'
      from /opt/local/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/astrails-safe-0.2.7/bin/astrails-safe:50:in `main'
      from /opt/local/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/astrails-safe-0.2.7/bin/astrails-safe:53
      from /opt/local/bin/astrails-safe:19:in `load'
      from /opt/local/bin/astrails-safe:19
  </code></pre>
  
  <p>The code in local.rb is as follow.</p>
  
  <pre><code>safe do
  
    local do
      path "/backup/:kind"
    end
  
  
    s3 do
       key "mykey"
       secret "mysecret"
       bucket "myapp-local-backup"
       path ":kind/:id" # this is default
    end
  
  
    keep do
      local 100
      s3 100
      mysqldump 100
    end
  
    # backup mysql databases with mysqldump
    mysqldump do
      # you can override any setting from parent in a child:
      options "-ceKq --single-transaction --create-options"
  
      user "root"
      password ""
      # host "localhost"
      # port 3306
      socket "/tmp/mysql.sock"
      database :myapp_development
  
  
    end
  
    tar do
      options "-h" # uncomment this to dereference symbolic links
  
      archive "myapp-local-com" do
        files "~/sites/web_apps/myapp/branches"
      end
  
    end
  
  
  
  end
  </code></pre>
  
  <p>Any help would be appreciated!</p>
  
  <p>Thanks.</p>