title: Moving an existing Nexus 3 blobstore to an S3 bucket
body: <p>I'm currently migrating a Sonatype Nexus 3 OSS installation that uses a filesystem blobstorage to an EC2 docker installation that will use an S3 bucket as a blobstorage.</p>
  <p>Reading the Nexus documentation I've noticed that moving a blobstorage from filesystem to S3 is possible through a feature called 'group blobstorage', but it's currently only available to Nexus PRO users.</p>
  <p>Is there any other way to migrate that doesn't require a PRO license?</p>
  <p>I've tried manually moving a blobstorage contents (after updating the metadata.properties file with the value <code>type = s3/1</code> instead of <code>type = file/1</code>), but after setting up the bucket as a S3 blobstorage, the new Nexus installation sees it as empty (it most certainly needs configurations to index it properly).</p>