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What is the WinSCP Tool? WinSCP is a free desktop application for Windows which allows user to manage remote files for a wide variety of protocols including S3 compatible Object Storage.  Please follow the installation instructions described here if you’re interested in using the tool. You will need the following information to install the tool: […]

What is the s3fs-fuse tool? Using s3fs-fuse, you can mount a bucket of your S3 compatible Object Storage as a folder on Linux, macOS or FreeBSD machine.  Please follow the installation instructions here if you’re interested in using this tool. If you are using Debian/Ubuntu please perform run the following command to install it instead:

What is the Goofys tool? Goofys is another S3 file system tool for Linux and macOS. It provides the same functionality as s3fs-fuse but with better performance.  Please follow the installation instructions described here if you are interested in the tool. You will need the following information to install the tool: access_key secret_key Contabo’s S3

What is the Cyberduck tool? Cyberduck is a free desktop application for MacOS and Windows which allows users to manage remote files for a wide variety of protocols including S3 compatible Object Storage.  Please follow the installation instructions described here. You will need the following information to install Cyberduck: access_key secret_key Contabo’s S3 URL How

What is the AWS CLI tool? AWS CLI is a free tool from Amazon that supports S3 compatible Object Storage. It covers nearly all aspects of S3 API management and supports Windows, MacOS and Linux. How do I install the aws cli tool? Please follow the installation instruction as described here. You will need the

What is the cntb tool? cntb is an open source command line interface developed by Contabo that allows you to easily manage Contabo products. This includes the S3 Object Storage. Please follow the instructions below to download and install cntb. How do I configure the cntb tool? To be able to use cntb with your

Can I increase the number if objects in my Object Storage? By default, you have a limit of 3 million objects in your Object Storage. For the majority of users this is a very high limit and is not something you need to worry about.  However, if you do need to increase the limit of objects

Does Contabo offer support for Coding? Please note that due to it’s complexity Contabo does not offer any support for coding / programming issues. The following information is not a step-by-step guide, but a few suggestions on setting this up. How do I use S3 Object Storage in my code? The S3 Object Storage API

Can I setup a custom domain for my Object Storage? Sometimes you may want to use your own custom domain name instead of the rather generic ones provided by default for your S3 compatible Object Storage. The S3 Object Storage is only available via TLS encrypted transport (https) in order to improve security. CNAME resource

How Can I Control Space Being Used On My Object Storage? With S3-compatible Object Storage in general, you may sometimes find that more space is reported as being used than you actually have. In practice, this happens for the following reasons Aborted multipart uploads Versioning is enabled The next sections cover these topics in more

Can I restrict users to specific buckets in Contabo’s Object Storage? You can restrict users to specific buckets to allow a specific user to use one bucket while another bucket should only be accessible to another user. The following describes how to allow access to buckets to a limited number of users. The following assumes

Does Contabo Object Storage support lifecycle policies? Contabo’s S3 Object Storage supports S3 lifecycle policies that allow you to automatically delete objects after a certain amount of time. This can be useful for pruning old backups or log files. Be careful when setting up lifecycle policies. They apply to all objects in a bucket and

Does Object Storage support versioning? With S3 compatible Object Storage, you can use versioning, which allows you to keep multiple versions of an object, so that when you upload an object/file with the same name the S3 Object Storage system will store a version of the previous contents.  This version is also stored in the

How do I disable object locking on my Object Storage? To disable object locking, you can execute the following API: aws –profile eu2 –region default –endpoint-url https://eu2.contabostorage.com s3api put-object-lock-configuration –bucket test-is-lock –object-lock-configuration ‘{ “ObjectLockEnabled”: “Enabled” }’ Details…

How do I backup my files stored on Contabo’s S3 Object Storage? Below is a guide on a simple way to perform a backup of your files. In the example we will be using rclone. You could use more specific tools to create e.g. archives of the files you want to backup and use rclone