diff --git a/scripts/test-sim-redis-up-and-down-dev.sh b/scripts/test-sim-redis-up-and-down-dev.sh
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+#!/usr/bin/env bash
+
+SCRIPTDIR="$(cd "$(dirname "${BASH_SOURCE[0]}")" >/dev/null 2>&1 && pwd)"
+
+# shellcheck source=/postgres-dev.sh
+source "${SCRIPTDIR}/postgres-dev.sh"
+
+"${SCRIPTDIR}/test-sim-redis-up-and-down.sh"
diff --git a/scripts/test-sim-redis-up-and-down.sh b/scripts/test-sim-redis-up-and-down.sh
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+#!/usr/bin/env bash
+set -Eeuo pipefail
+set +x
+
+# Required environment variables
+if [ -z "${STORJ_SIM_POSTGRES}" ]; then
+	echo "STORJ_SIM_POSTGRES environment variable must be set to a non-empty string"
+	exit 1
+fi
+
+# constants
+SCRIPT_DIR="$(cd "$(dirname "${BASH_SOURCE[0]}")" >/dev/null 2>&1 && pwd)"
+readonly SCRIPT_DIR
+REDIS_CONTAINER_NAME=storj_sim_redis
+readonly REDIS_CONTAINER_NAME
+TMP_DIR=$(mktemp -d -t tmp.XXXXXXXXXX)
+readonly TMP_DIR
+
+# setup tmpdir for testfiles and cleanup
+cleanup() {
+	trap - EXIT
+
+	rm -rf "${TMP_DIR}"
+	docker container rm -f "${REDIS_CONTAINER_NAME}" >/dev/null 2>&1 || true
+}
+trap cleanup EXIT
+
+echo "install sim"
+make -C "$SCRIPT_DIR"/.. install-sim
+
+echo "overriding default max segment size to 6MiB"
+GOBIN="${TMP_DIR}" go install -v -ldflags "-X 'storj.io/uplink.maxSegmentSize=6MiB'" storj.io/storj/cmd/uplink
+
+# use modified version of uplink
+export PATH="${TMP_DIR}:${PATH}"
+export STORJ_NETWORK_DIR="${TMP_DIR}"
+
+STORJ_NETWORK_HOST4=${STORJ_NETWORK_HOST4:-127.0.0.1}
+
+redis_run() {
+	local retries=10
+
+	docker container run -d -p 6379:6379 --name "${REDIS_CONTAINER_NAME}" redis:5.0-alpine
+	until docker container exec "${REDIS_CONTAINER_NAME}" redis-cli ping >/dev/null 2>&1 ||
+		[ ${retries} -eq 0 ]; do
+		echo "waiting for Redis server to be ready, $((retries--)) remaining attemps..."
+		sleep 1
+	done
+
+	if [ ${retries} -eq 0 ]; then
+		echo "aborting, Redis server is not ready after several retrials"
+		exit 1
+	fi
+}
+
+redis_stop() {
+	docker container stop "${REDIS_CONTAINER_NAME}"
+}
+
+# setup the network
+storj-sim --failfast -x --satellites 1 --host "${STORJ_NETWORK_HOST4}" network \
+	--postgres="${STORJ_SIM_POSTGRES}" --redis="127.0.0.1:6379" setup
+
+# run test that checks that the satellite runs when Redis is up and down
+redis_run
+storj-sim --failfast -x --satellites 1 --host "${STORJ_NETWORK_HOST4}" network \
+	--redis="127.0.0.1:6379" test bash "${SCRIPT_DIR}/test-uplink-redis-up-and-down.sh" "${REDIS_CONTAINER_NAME}"
+
+# run test that checks that the satellite runs despite of not being able to connect to Redis
+redis_stop
+storj-sim --failfast -x --satellites 1 --host "${STORJ_NETWORK_HOST4}" network \
+	--redis="127.0.0.1:6379" test bash "${SCRIPT_DIR}/test-uplink.sh"
diff --git a/scripts/test-uplink-redis-up-and-down.sh b/scripts/test-uplink-redis-up-and-down.sh
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+#!/usr/bin/env bash
+set -ueo pipefail
+
+redis_container_name="${1-}"
+
+# Required positional arguments
+if [ -z "${redis_container_name}" ]; then
+	echo "redis container name is required as a first positional script argument"
+	exit 1
+fi
+
+# constants
+BUCKET="bucket-123"
+readonly BUCKET
+UPLINK_DEBUG_ADDR=""
+readonly UPLINK_DEBUG_ADDR
+
+export STORJ_ACCESS="${GATEWAY_0_ACCESS}"
+export STORJ_DEBUG_ADDR="${UPLINK_DEBUG_ADDR}"
+
+# Vars
+temp_dirs=() # used to track all the created temporary directories
+
+cleanup() {
+	trap - EXIT
+
+	rm -rf "${temp_dirs[@]}"
+	echo "cleaned up test successfully"
+}
+trap cleanup EXIT
+
+random_bytes_file() {
+	size="${1}"
+	output="${2}"
+	head -c "${size}" </dev/urandom >"${output}"
+}
+
+compare_files() {
+	name=$(basename "${2}")
+	if cmp "${1}" "${2}"; then
+		echo "${name} matches uploaded file"
+	else
+		echo "${name} does not match uploaded file"
+		exit 1
+	fi
+}
+
+redis_start() {
+	docker container start "${redis_container_name}"
+}
+
+redis_stop() {
+	docker container stop "${redis_container_name}"
+}
+
+uplink_test() {
+	local temp_dir
+	temp_dir=$(mktemp -d -t tmp.XXXXXXXXXX)
+	temp_dirs+=("${temp_dir}")
+
+	local src_dir="${temp_dir}/source"
+	local dst_dir="${temp_dir}/dst"
+	mkdir -p "${src_dir}" "${dst_dir}"
+
+	local uplink_dir="${temp_dir}/uplink"
+
+	random_bytes_file "2KiB" "${src_dir}/small-upload-testfile" # create 2KiB file of random bytes (inline)
+	random_bytes_file "5MiB" "${src_dir}/big-upload-testfile"   # create 5MiB file of random bytes (remote)
+	# this is special case where we need to test at least one remote segment and inline segment of exact size 0
+	random_bytes_file "12MiB" "${src_dir}/multisegment-upload-testfile" # create 12MiB file of random bytes (1 remote segments + inline)
+	random_bytes_file "13MiB" "${src_dir}/diff-size-segments"           # create 13MiB file of random bytes (2 remote segments)
+
+	random_bytes_file "100KiB" "${src_dir}/put-file" # create 100KiB file of random bytes (remote)
+
+	uplink mb "sj://$BUCKET/"
+	uplink cp "${src_dir}/small-upload-testfile" "sj://$BUCKET/" --progress=false
+	uplink cp "${src_dir}/big-upload-testfile" "sj://$BUCKET/" --progress=false
+	uplink cp "${src_dir}/multisegment-upload-testfile" "sj://$BUCKET/" --progress=false
+	uplink cp "${src_dir}/diff-size-segments" "sj://$BUCKET/" --progress=false
+
+	uplink <"${src_dir}/put-file" put "sj://$BUCKET/put-file"
+
+	uplink --config-dir "${uplink_dir}" import named-access "${STORJ_ACCESS}"
+
+	local files
+	files=$(STORJ_ACCESS='' uplink --config-dir "${uplink_dir}" --access named-access \
+		ls "sj://${BUCKET}" | tee "${temp_dir}/list" | wc -l)
+	local expected_files="5"
+	if [ "${files}" == "${expected_files}" ]; then
+		echo "listing returns ${files} files"
+	else
+		echo "listing returns ${files} files but want ${expected_files}"
+		exit 1
+	fi
+
+	local size_check
+	size_check=$(awk <"${temp_dir}/list" '{if($4 == "0") print "invalid size";}')
+	if [ "${size_check}" != "" ]; then
+		echo "listing returns invalid size for one of the objects:"
+		cat "${temp_dir}/list"
+		exit 1
+	fi
+
+	uplink ls "sj://$BUCKET/non-existing-prefix"
+
+	uplink cp "sj://$BUCKET/small-upload-testfile" "${dst_dir}" --progress=false
+	uplink cp "sj://$BUCKET/big-upload-testfile" "${dst_dir}" --progress=false
+	uplink cp "sj://$BUCKET/multisegment-upload-testfile" "${dst_dir}" --progress=false
+	uplink cp "sj://$BUCKET/diff-size-segments" "${dst_dir}" --progress=false
+	uplink cp "sj://$BUCKET/put-file" "${dst_dir}" --progress=false
+	uplink cat "sj://$BUCKET/put-file" >>"${dst_dir}/put-file-from-cat"
+
+	uplink rm "sj://$BUCKET/small-upload-testfile"
+	uplink rm "sj://$BUCKET/big-upload-testfile"
+	uplink rm "sj://$BUCKET/multisegment-upload-testfile"
+	uplink rm "sj://$BUCKET/diff-size-segments"
+	uplink rm "sj://$BUCKET/put-file"
+
+	uplink ls "sj://$BUCKET"
+
+	uplink rb "sj://$BUCKET"
+
+	compare_files "${src_dir}/small-upload-testfile" "${dst_dir}/small-upload-testfile"
+	compare_files "${src_dir}/big-upload-testfile" "${dst_dir}/big-upload-testfile"
+	compare_files "${src_dir}/multisegment-upload-testfile" "${dst_dir}/multisegment-upload-testfile"
+	compare_files "${src_dir}/diff-size-segments" "${dst_dir}/diff-size-segments"
+	compare_files "${src_dir}/put-file" "${dst_dir}/put-file"
+	compare_files "${src_dir}/put-file" "${dst_dir}/put-file-from-cat"
+
+	# test deleting non empty bucket with --force flag
+	uplink mb "sj://$BUCKET/"
+
+	for i in $(seq -w 1 16); do
+		uplink cp "${src_dir}/small-upload-testfile" "sj://$BUCKET/small-file-$i" --progress=false
+	done
+
+	uplink rb "sj://$BUCKET" --force
+
+	if [ "$(uplink ls | grep -c "No buckets")" = "0" ]; then
+		echo "uplink didn't remove the entire bucket with the 'force' flag"
+		exit 1
+	fi
+}
+
+# Run the test with Redis container running
+uplink_test
+
+# Run the test with Redis container not running
+redis_stop
+uplink_test