my source zone has approx 300 records in it.
on the first run all the records were created in route53.
on the next run however some records were attempted to be created again
Transferring zone example.com from server 1.2.3.4
Getting VPC SOA serial from Route 53
Comparing SOA serial 2017091200 with 2017091200
Updating as CREATE for A record test TTL 300 in zone example.com with [<DNS IN A rdata: 2.3.4.5>]
An error occurred (InvalidChangeBatch) when calling the ChangeResourceRecordSets operation: Tried to create resource record set [name='test.example.com.', type='A'] but it already exists
ERROR: Unable to update zone example.com
since only 100 records are fetched from route53, then remaining records are assumed missing and scheduled for creation. when the create is attempted it fails because the record already exists.
my source zone has approx 300 records in it. on the first run all the records were created in route53. on the next run however some records were attempted to be created again
it appears that the software does not account for the fact that ListResourceRecords by default returns 100 records at a time. see: http://docs.aws.amazon.com/Route53/latest/APIReference/API_ListResourceRecordSets.html
since only 100 records are fetched from route53, then remaining records are assumed missing and scheduled for creation. when the create is attempted it fails because the record already exists.