AARNet CloudStor
Mount CloudStor in VM
You have a CloudStor account and you have generated an App Password to access it from your Nectar instance. The steps below show you how to use the cloudstor-setup
command provided by Nectar.
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SSH to your Nectar virtual machine via your preferred terminal software. If you’re not familiar with this, we have some other tutorials for you.
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Start the CloudStor setup by typing
cloudstor-setup
at the command prompt.$ cloudstor-setup
The
cloudstor-setup
command will re-emphasise using App Passwords to you. -
By default the
cloudstor-setup
command will prompt you for your CloudStorusername
andpassword
. Follow the prompts and paste in the username and password you generated in the previous section. You should see some output similar to this:$ cloudstor-setup This command guides you through the process of mounting your AARNet CloudStor storage to your Nectar instance. To mount your CloudStor storage, you will be prompted for a username and password. You can generate specific use 'app passwords' from the security settings of your CloudStor account here: https://cloudstor.aarnet.edu.au/plus/settings/personal?sectionid=security PLEASE NOTE: If you snapshot this instance and share it, your CloudStor app password may be exposed though the configuration file /etc/davfs2/secrets. For more information, please see the CloudStor setup article at: https://support.ehelp.edu.au/support/solutions/articles/6000211327 Press [ENTER] to continue or Ctrl+C to exit. Username: wile.c@acme.edu.au App password: Testing your CloudStor credentials... OK Mounting CloudStor storage... done Your CloudStor account has been mounted to /cloudstor $
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You should now be able to work with your CloudStor data at
/cloudstor
on your virtual machine. You can use thedf
command to verify, similar to.:$ df -h Filesystem Size Used Avail Use% Mounted on ... https://cloudstor....us/remote.php/webdav/ 1.1T 11G 1.0T 2% /cloudstor
The cloudstor-setup
command can uninstall your mounted connection for you too. Use the -h
argument for more information, e.g.
$ cloudstor-setup -h
Note
The command cloudstor-setup
is available on Nectar official images, build after 10/10/2018.
Under the hood the cloudstor-setup
command uses software called davfs2
to connect to your AARNet CloudStor account.