PBM-INIT File safe for removal?

[Nathan_Neulinger]

I ran into similar issue when trying to use a read-only IAM profile, thread here for reference. In my case, giving the profile access to only write to .pbm.init was sufficient to get functional.

How to restore from a read-only S3 bucket?

I’m trying to restore to an secondary test cluster (with identical replset name) for the purposes of validating a backup. However, the first thing pbm tries to do with a force-resync is to rewrite .pbm.init in the repository, which it cannot do because it doesn’t have permissions. I’m going to try doing a very limited IAM role that would allow it to delete/upload JUST that one file, but that seems rather hackish. Is there a proper way to be able to restore from a protected path that I don’t hav…