rclone/docs/content/swift.md

title	description	date
Swift	Swift	2014-04-26

Swift

Swift refers to Openstack Object Storage. Commercial implementations of that being:

• Rackspace Cloud Files
• Memset Memstore

Paths are specified as remote:container (or remote: for the lsd command.) You may put subdirectories in too, eg remote:container/path/to/dir.

Here is an example of making a swift configuration. First run

rclone config

This will guide you through an interactive setup process.

No remotes found - make a new one
n) New remote
q) Quit config
n/q> n
name> remote
What type of source is it?
Choose a number from below
 1) swift
 2) s3
 3) local
 4) drive
type> 1
User name to log in.
user> user_name
API key or password.
key> password_or_api_key
Authentication URL for server.
Choose a number from below, or type in your own value
 * Rackspace US
 1) https://auth.api.rackspacecloud.com/v1.0
 * Rackspace UK
 2) https://lon.auth.api.rackspacecloud.com/v1.0
 * Rackspace v2
 3) https://identity.api.rackspacecloud.com/v2.0
 * Memset Memstore UK
 4) https://auth.storage.memset.com/v1.0
 * Memset Memstore UK v2
 5) https://auth.storage.memset.com/v2.0
auth> 1
Tenant name - optional
tenant>
Remote config
--------------------
[remote]
user = user_name
key = password_or_api_key
auth = https://auth.api.rackspacecloud.com/v1.0
tenant =
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y) Yes this is OK
e) Edit this remote
d) Delete this remote
y/e/d> y

This remote is called remote and can now be used like this

See all containers

rclone lsd remote:

Make a new container

rclone mkdir remote:container

List the contents of a container

rclone ls remote:container

Sync /home/local/directory to the remote container, deleting any excess files in the container.

rclone sync /home/local/directory remote:container

Specific options

Here are the command line options specific to this cloud storage system.

--swift-chunk-size=SIZE

Above this size files will be chunked into a _segments container. The default for this is 5GB which is its maximum value.

Modified time

The modified time is stored as metadata on the object as X-Object-Meta-Mtime as floating point since the epoch accurate to 1 ns.

This is a defacto standard (used in the official python-swiftclient amongst others) for storing the modification time for an object.