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+I have an annex set up with an s3 special remote. It works fine on one computer. I cloned the annex to a USB stick, plugged the stick into a second computer and cloned the annex to that machine. When I try to `git annex initremote cloud` on the second machine, I get the following error:
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+    git-annex: Unknown remote type S3
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+The second machine is running git-annex 3.20121017.