Knowledgebase

Please note that usernames u00000 and u00000-sub1 are examples only. Please replace them with the username of your Storage Box or the username of your sub-account.

FTP / FTPS

Main account

Addresse: u00000.your-storagebox.de
Username: u00000
Port: 21

Sub Account

Addresse: u00000-sub1.your-storagebox.de
Username: u00000-sub1
Port: 21

You can access your Storage Box by using FTP. Please use your assigned hostname <username>.your-storagebox.de, username, and password. Please note that an FTP connection is unencrypted; only FTPS (FTP+TLS) is encrypted.

If you also plan on using a sub-account on your Storage Box, please make sure to also use the sub-account username for connection.

Example applications:

• FileZilla
• ftp
• ncftp
• lftp

SFTP / SCP / rsync

Main account

Addresse: u00000.your-storagebox.de
Username: u00000
Port: 22 or 23

Sub Account

Addresse: u00000-sub1.your-storagebox.de
Username: u00000-sub1
Port: 22 or 23

The connection over this protocol is fully encrypted. You need to create a public key and a private key. Then add the public key to a new Storage Box space in the .ssh directory with permission 0700 (rwx------) and in the authorized_keys file with permission 0600 (rw-------).

Here is an example of how this can be done:

server> echo -e "mkdir .ssh \n chmod 700 .ssh \n put storagebox_authorized_keys .ssh/authorized_keys \n chmod 600 .ssh/authorized_keys" | sftp <username>@<username>.your-storagebox.de
u12345@u12345.your-storagebox.de's password:
Connected to u12345.your-storagebox.de'.
sftp> mkdir .ssh
sftp> chmod 700 .ssh
Changing mode on /.ssh
sftp> put storagebox_authorized_keys .ssh/authorized_keys
Uploading storagebox_authorized_keys to /.ssh/authorized_keys
storagebox_authorized_keys 100% 2916 2.0MB/s 00:00
sftp> chmod 600 .ssh/authorized_keys
Changing mode on /.ssh/authorized_keys

To start a SFTP session, please execute the following command:

sftp -P 23 <username>@<username>.your-storagebox.de

For example, to synchronize a local directory to the storage box, you can use rsync as follows:

rsync --progress -e 'ssh -p23' --recursive <local_directory> <username>@<username>.your-storagebox.de:<target_directory>

To re-download a directory from the storage box, you only need to swap the directories:

rsync --progress -e 'ssh -p23' --recursive <username>@<username>.your-storagebox.de:<remote_directory> <local_directory>

To upload a file via SCP, you can execute the following command:

scp -P 23 <local_file> <username>@<username>.your-storagebox.de:<remote_file>

To download the file again, you only have to swap the target and source files:

scp -P 23 <username>@<username>.your-storagebox.de:<remote_file> <local_file>

SMB / CIFS

Main account

Addresse: //u00000.your-storagebox.de/backup
Username: u00000
Port: 445

Sub Account

Addresse: //u00000-sub1.your-storagebox.de/u00000-sub1
Username: u00000-sub1
Port: 445

Add the following line in the /etc/fstab file:

//<username>.your-storagebox.de/backup /mnt/backup-server cifs iocharset=utf8,rw,credentials=/etc/backup-credentials.txt,uid=<system account>,gid=<system group>,file_mode=0660,dir_mode=0770 0 0

The file /etc/backup-credentials.txt (mode 0600) should contain two lines as follows:

username=<username>
password=<password>

It is worth checking if cifs support is installed on your system. If not, you should add it first. To mount the file system, use the following command:

mount.cifs -o user=<username>,pass=<password> //<username>.your-storagebox.de/backup /PATH/FOLDER

HTTPS / WebDAV

Main account

Addresse: https://u00000.your-storagebox.de
Username: u00000
Port: 443

Sub Account

Addresse: https://u00000-sub1.your-storagebox.de
Username: u00000-sub1
Port: 443

To create a link to the WebDAV directory, use the following command:

mount -t davfs https://<username>.your-storagebox.de /MOUNTPOINT

By adding the following line to /etc/fstab, your system will automatically mount the file system at boot. (Jest to pojedyncza linia!):

https://<username>.your-storagebox.de /MOUNTPOINT davfs rw,uid=<system_user>,gid=<system_group>,file_mode=0660,dir_mode=0770 0 0

To automatically mount the WebDAV directory, enter the following line in the file /etc/davfs2/secrets:

https://<username>.your-storagebox.de <username> <password>

You should also check if your system has davfs support. If not, you have to install it.