Indexing & search

Search, filter, and sort need an index. BucketPilot builds a searchable index of object names, sizes, and storage classes — never the file contents.

1. 1.Open the bucket. Unindexed buckets show a "Search not available" banner.
2. 2.Click Index bucket. The scan runs in the background — progress shows on the Indexing tab of Backups & Migrations, and you can keep working.
3. 3.When the status reaches ready, search, filters, per-folder sizes, and cost estimates light up — and stay current as you upload.

Very large buckets can use S3 Inventory mode instead of live scans, which is cheaper and faster at scale.

Auto-sync keeps an index current on a schedule. When you don't want to wait for the next one, press Index now — on a bucket's row in Buckets & Servers, or beside the auto-sync schedule inside the bucket. It re-scans that bucket straight away, picking up new objects and noticing deleted ones.

Index all (in the page header) queues every bucket in the list as you have it filtered — handy after a big upload day or a clean-up. One confirmation, then a summary of what was queued and what was left out and why (already running, an inventory bucket, at your plan's limit, or a very large bucket that needs its own confirmation).

They queue; they don't all start at once. Each plan re-indexes a limited number of buckets at the same time — Starter 1, Pro 2, Business 4 — so pressing Index all on a hundred buckets starts that many and lines up the rest, oldest first. A queued bucket shows Queued and starts by itself when a slot frees up; you can leave the page. Scheduled auto-sync runs count toward the same number but are never held back by it.

Each plan includes a number of indexed objects: Starter 1M, Pro 10M, Business 50M (Enterprise is custom). If you hit the cap, your existing index keeps working and only new indexing pauses — upgrading raises the ceiling instantly.