Friday, May 10, 2013

How to Set Reduced Redundancy Storage (RRS) for S3 with CrossFTP

Reduced Redundancy Storage (RRS) is a storage option within Amazon S3 that enables customers to reduce their costs by storing non-critical, reproducible data at lower levels of redundancy than Amazon S3’s standard storage. RRS provides a lower cost, less durable, highly available storage option that is designed to sustain the loss of data in a single facility.

CrossFTP supports the Reduced Redundancy Storage (RRS) configuration for S3 for newly uploaded files and existing files. For existing files you already uploaded on S3, you can find their storage classes by right click on the file pane's column head, and toggle Storage Class from the popup menu. This is shown in Fig. 1.
Fig. 1. Show Storage Class for S3 File Objects

Here are the instructions for setting up the RRS:
  • New Files - for new files you prepare to upload to the S3, you can toggle Sites -> Site Manager -> S3 -> Reduced Redundancy Storage (RRS), and then all new uploaded files will be in RRS storage class. This is shown in the Fig. 2.
 Fig. 2. Choosing Reduced Redundancy Storage as Default Storage Class
  • Existing Files -if you want to convert the existing files' storage class, you can choose the files/folders in the file pane, and select right click and choose Properties... -> Metadata from the popup dialog. After that, press + button, and select Key as x-amz-storage-class, and Value as REDUCED_REDUNDANCY for RRS, or STANDARD for default S3 class storage. Press OK button to save, and Commit button to submit the changes. This is shown in Fig. 3.
Fig. 3. Convert the Storage Class
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CrossFTP is a FTP, SFTP, FXP, WebDav, Amazon S3, Amazon Glacier and Google Cloud Storage client for Windows, Mac, and Linux.
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Sunday, April 28, 2013

Using CrossFTP as Amazon Glacier Client on Windows, Mac, and Linux

Amazon Glacier is an extremely low-cost storage service that provides secure and durable storage for data archiving and backup. In order to keep costs low, Amazon Glacier is optimized for data that is infrequently accessed and for which retrieval times of several hours are suitable.

CrossFTP comes with full support of Amazon Glacier on Windows, Mac, and Linux. It allows you to create vaults, move data to vaults and request to download the data back to your computer.

Connect to Amazon Glacier

You can create a new Amazon Glacier site in Sites -> Site Manager, and choose the Protocol as Amazon Glacier/HTTPS.

New Amazon Glacier Site

 Create Vault

You can create new vaults at the root folder of the Amazon Glacier site by choosing New Folder.
You can upload/backup your local files to the Amazon Glacier site by Transfer / Drag & Drop local files to the remote site. By default, all files transferred to Amazon Glacier will be stored in CrossFTP's local cache pool with the file metadata, so that you can browse your vault inventory directly. However, after your request a file download/retrieval, normally it will take 4~5 hours before Amazon can finish the preparation to initiate the download of file.

Retrieve Vault Inventory

Attention: if you upload files using other Amazon Glacier tools, or the vault's content seems incorrect, you need to retrieve the vault inventory.
If you want to retrieve the content of the vault inventory, you can simply press the Refresh folder button. CrossFTP will confirm with you whether you want to download the content of the vault inventory. Again, it normally takes 4~5 hours before Amazon can finish the preparation to initiate the download of file.

 The cost of data on Amazon Glacier involves with the data's size and retrieve rate. You can have a quick calculation using the following tool: http://liangzan.net/aws-glacier-calculator/

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CrossFTP is a FTP, SFTP, FXP, WebDav, Amazon S3, Amazon Glacier and Google Cloud Storage client for Windows, Mac, and Linux.
CrossFTP Team
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Thursday, April 25, 2013

CrossFTP 1.90.2 Released

CrossFTP 1.90.2 is a major update. The main changes are:
* Support of Amazon Glacier protocol.
* Local tree style file system cache for Glacier.
* Process huge amount of files effectively.
* Multi-part upload for Amazon Glacier.
* Support very large file's upload (up to 40TB).
* Multi-threads transfer support.
* Compressing support for Amazon Glacier.
* Local Encryption support for Amazon Glacier.
* Bandwidth limit management.

This update is recommended for all CrossFTP users.
CrossFTP is a FTP, SFTP, FXP, WebDav, Amazon S3, Amazon Glacier and Google Cloud Storage client for Windows, Mac, and Linux.
CrossFTP Team
http://www.crossftp.com/

Monday, January 14, 2013

CrossFTP 1.88.6 Released

CrossFTP 1.88.6 is a major update. The main changes are:
* Enables "Move To…" function for the remote site.
* Adds installation support for site license file.
* Improves translation message, and fixes some types.
* Adds Korea translation.
* Improves Chinese translation.
* Fixes compatibility issues with JDK 5.
* Fixes issue when the CloudFront Distribution is edited multiple times, the OriginAccessId disappears.

This update is recommended for all CrossFTP users.
CrossFTP is a FTP, SFTP, FXP, WebDav, Amazon S3, Amazon Glacier and Google Cloud Storage client for Windows, Mac, and Linux.
CrossFTP Team
http://www.crossftp.com/

Friday, December 14, 2012

CrossFTP Pro Released in Mac App Store

To improve Mac users' installation experience, we have now delivered CrossFTP Pro into the Mac App Store. You can find the Mac App Store link at:
https://itunes.apple.com/au/app/crossftp-pro/id574356166?mt=12

Fig. 1. is a preview of the CrossFTP Pro in the store.
If you are a happy user of CrossFTP Pro, welcome to add reviews in the App Store so that more users will know about us.

Since Mac App Store enforces the security entitlement of applications, CrossFTP Pro is limited to visit the "Downloads" folder only. If you made the purchase in the Mac App Store and need to visit files outside the "Downloads" folder, drop us an Email at http://www.crossftp.com/support.htm with your purchase info, and we will offer a free CrossFTP Pro license for you, so that you can download and run the un-sandboxed CrossFTP Pro version directly.

CrossFTP is a FTP, SFTP, FXP, WebDav, Amazon S3, Amazon Glacier and Google Cloud Storage client for Windows, Mac, and Linux.
CrossFTP Team
http://www.crossftp.com/

Thursday, November 29, 2012

CrossFTP 1.88.4 Released

CrossFTP 1.88.4 is a major update. The main changes are:
* Support S3 Sydney Bucket Location.
* Fix some file upload issues for Google Cloud Storage.

This update is recommended for all CrossFTP users.

CrossFTP is a FTP, FXP, WebDav, Amazon S3 and Google Cloud Storage client for Windows, Mac, and Linux.
CrossFTP Team
http://www.crossftp.com/

Thursday, November 22, 2012

How to use CrossFTP to connect to Google Cloud Storage

To connect to the Google Cloud Storage, please select the Google Cloud Storage in the protocol list box in the CrossFTP's site manager. There ate two different authentication approaches available for the Google Cloud Storage: Access key based and Oauth2 based. We will introduce these two approaches separately in the following:
  • Access key based - you should copy the  access key and the secret from the Google's online management console, and fill on the corresponding field in the site manager, as shown in Fig. 1.
 Fig. 1. Access Key for Google Cloud Storage Protocol
  • Oauth2 based (HTTPS only) - you should fill in the projectID and then click to connect. If this is the first time you connect to the site, a dialog will be popped up with an authentication URL. You should open this URL in your web browser, and copy the authentication code back into the dialog, as shown in the Fig 2. and Fig.3.
Fig. 2.  Authentication Dialog
Fig. 3. Agree the Access Permission, and Copy the Code Back to Authentication Dialog

Once connected, you can create new buckets, modify the file object's permission and metadata, and define the bucket logging on the Google Cloud Storage.

Conclusion

CrossFTP Pro makes it easy to manage Google Cloud Storage sites.
This feature is available for CrossFTP Pro 1.88.2 or later.
CrossFTP is a FTP, SFTP, FXP, WebDav, Amazon S3, Amazon Glacier and Google Cloud Storage client for Windows, Mac, and Linux.