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Cloud Archive Swift - Manage your archives with an SFTP/SCP client

Stephanie R.
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Learn how to manage your Public Cloud archives with Cloud Archive.

Object Storage is a storage solution that is managed primarily through the OpenStackAPI. However, you might not be familiar with managing storage space via the command line. Therefore, we have developed a gateway that makes it possible to connect to your PCA container with an SFTP client.

 

Requirements

  • SFTP Client: WinSCP
  • OpenStack Login & Password
  • TenantName of the project

 

Instructions

SFTP Client

In this example, we use WinSCP, but you can use any SFTP client. The configuration of each SFTP client is similar, as explained here, regardless of the client.

 

OpenStackID

You can generate your OpenStack login & password using this guide.

 

TenantName

The TenantName corresponds to the name of your Horizon Project. To get the TenantName, you need to connect to the OpenStack web interface: https://horizon.cloud.ovh.us/. Once logged in, the TenantName is visible at the top of the page.

sftppci1.png

 

Connection

  • Host Name: gateways.storage.YOUR_REGION.cloud.ovh.us
  • User Name: pca
  • Password: ..

NOTE: If your services are in a US data center, the URL will end with .us. If they are in another data center, the URL will end with .net.

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Example

If you created aPCA container in us-east-va-1:

  • Host Name: gateways.storage.us-east-va-1.cloud.ovh.us
  • User Name: pca
  • Password:971891XXXX1214.f6nBXXXXXAmcv.SfPeASYfuWeqBZgXXXXX2XhF3DY12RkD

sftppci3.png

 

WinSCP Setting

In this part, we will disable two WinSCP options:

Transfer Resume / Transfer to Temporary Filename: This option will have to be disabled because recovery is not possible withPCA, and WinSCP can return an error.

  • In the Endurance section, select Disable.

    sftppci4.png

Preserve Timestamp: Timestamp corresponds to the date of modification of the file; we disable it because, on PCA, we replace this data with the date of upload of the file.

  • In the Transfer section, click on Edit....

    sftppci5.png

  • Uncheck Preserve timestamp.

    sftppci6.png

 

Data Recovery

Data recovery requires that the object be unlocked first. A GET request must be made on the object in question. If this command is not made beforehand, your SFTP client will return an error message when attempting to download a file.

 

Go further

For more information and tutorials, please see our other Public Cloud support guides or explore the guides for other OVHcloud products and services.

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