After installing CloudFusion, you need to create a configuration file for the storage provider you want to use as described below.
Copy the Sugarsync configuration file located at cloudfusion/cloudfusion/config/Sugarsync.ini to your home directory. Edit the configuration file by adding your e-mail address as your username and a password. Your account will expire after a month, except if you change to a payed account.
Simply copy the Dropbox configuration file located at cloudfusion/cloudfusion/config/Dropbox.ini to your home directory. If you do not have a Dropbox account already, you can create a new one at https://www.dropbox.com. Edit the configuration file by adding your username and a password.
Copy the Google Drive configuration file located at cloudfusion/cloudfusion/config/GDrive.ini to your home directory. Add your client_id, and client_secret to the configuration file. Details on obtaining these are inside the configuration file.
Copy the Google Storage configuration file located at cloudfusion/cloudfusion/config/Google.ini to your home directory. Add your access_key_id, and secret_access_key to the configuration file. Details on obtaining these are inside the configuration file.
Copy the Amazon S3 configuration file located at cloudfusion/cloudfusion/config/AmazonS3.ini to your home directory. Add your access_key_id, and secret_access_key to the configuration file. Details on obtaining these are inside the configuration file.
Copy the WebDAV configuration file located at cloudfusion/cloudfusion/config/Webdav.ini to your home directory. Add the URL of the server, your username, and your password to the configuration file. Here some information about WebDAV providers:
| Name | WebDAV URL | Free Storage | Further Details |
|---|---|---|---|
| T-Online | https://webdav.mediencenter.t-online.de | 25 GB | German Provider |
| 4shared | https://webdav.4shared.com | 15 GB | 3 GB daily traffic, 30 GB monthly, cannot delete directories |
| Box.com | https://dav.box.com/dav | 10 GB | |
| yandex.com | https://webdav.yandex.com | 10 GB | |
| GMX | https://webdav.mc.gmx.net | 2 GB | German Provider |
| OneDrive | see: blog.lazut.in | 7 GB | Does not seem to work anymore |
Start CloudFusion:
cloudfusion --config ~/db.ini mnt
This assumes that you saved the configuration file as db.ini to your home directory. If you simply copied the configuration file as suggested, replace db.ini with the respective file; i.e. Sugarsync.ini or Dropbox.ini.
Enjoy accessing your files in the directory mnt/data.
To shut down CloudFusion, you can delete the file mnt/config/config, or use the following command:
cloudfusion ~/mnt stop
Cloudfusion does not set the correct permissions or time stamps. See the following projects if this is a requirement:
| s3fs: | Amazon S3 |
|---|---|
| s3fuse: | Google Storage |
| davfs2: | WebDAV (included in Linux standard distributions) |
There is no automatic sync from the online store to local disk. But
- you can manually refresh the directory to see changes
- with Dropbox, files are moved to /overwritten directory (online) instead of being overwritten accidentially
There is no differential update, which means files are uploaded or downloaded as a whole.
Dropbox has a maximum file upload size of 150MB and operations can at most work on 10.000 files and folders. It does not allow thumbs.db or .ds_store files.
Sugarsync has a maximum file upload size of 100MB. It does not allow Outlook .pst, Quicken, and Quickbooks.
Uploading a large amount of small files is quite slow. Instead, try putting the line:
type = chunk
into the [store] section of your configuration file. With this, CloudFusion will transparently store multiple small files inside the same directory into single archives. Using this parameter with Dropbox also solves the problem, that Dropbox does not distinguish file names by case. I.e. Dropbox ignores the difference between “file”, and “FILE”, in contrast to Linux file systems, where these would be different files. This feature is still experimental, but increases upload rate for small files a lot. A database is created in the temporary directory, which is necessary to access the files. This means, that you will only be able to see the files from this one CloudFusion installation.
Statistics can be read from the files in mnt/stats. The file stats contains general performance statistics, errors contains a summary of recently occured exceptions, and notuploaded contains files that are not yet completely uploaded to the remote storage provider.
Advanced options can be set in the configuration file in order to set limits to how much or how long data is cached:
#Approximate cache size limit in MB;
cache_size = 5000
# Hard cache size limit in MB. If this is exceeded, write operations are slowed down significantly,
# until enough space is free again.
hard_cache_size_limit = 10000
#How many seconds it may take until a file you just wrote is beginning to be uploaded, always counting from the time
#you last modified the file.
#During this time you can delete the file again, without ever uploading the file.
#If your files change a lot, and you are in no hurry to upload them, set this to about 10 minutes or more (600).
cache = 60
#How many seconds it may take for you to see changes made to your Dropbox account by another application.
#During this time you do not need to communicate with the store to see a directory listing, for instance.
#So listing directories is very fast.
#Set this to 15, if you quickly want to see files uploaded by your mobile computer or handheld, when you refresh the directory.
#If you upload file through CloudFusion only, this can be set to ten minutes (600).
metadata_cache = 120
#Identifier for persistent database. Use one id per cloud account to keep the cache after application shutdown.
#Default value is a random number.
cache_id = dropboxacc1