Using CloudStor

Command line upload

You can manually upload files using the web interface but you can also use curl (CloudStor supports WebDAV), which makes it convenient for directly uploading files from a server to CloudStor.

curl --progress-bar --verbose -T my_file.txt --user dave.tang@uwa.edu.au https://cloudstor.aarnet.edu.au/plus/remote.php/webdav/my_dir/ | tee /dev/null

In the example above, we are uploading my_file.txt to my_dir on CloudStor; change dave.tang@uwa.edu.au to your own UWA account. The command will only work if my_dir exists, so create it using the web interface prior to running the command. Otherwise, remove my_dir/ from the line and you can upload directly to the root directory. Do not forget the trailing /.

The command will prompt you for a password; use your CloudStor password that you created when you first logged onto CloudStor.

I’ve written a simple Perl script to help generate the command.

#!/usr/bin/env perl

use strict;
use warnings;

my $usage = "Usage: $0 <file> <dir>\n";
my $file = shift or die $usage;
my $dir = shift or die $usage;
my $user = "dave.tang\@uwa.edu.au";

my $command = "curl --progress-bar --verbose -T $file --user $user https://cloudstor.aarnet.edu.au/plus/remote.php/webdav/$dir/ | tee /dev/null";

print "Command to execute:\n\n$command\n\n";
print "Type yes to continue\n";
my $go = <STDIN>;
chomp($go);

if ($go =~ /^y/i){
   system($command);
} else {
   exit(0);
}

exit(0);

You can also use curl to send other request methods, such as deleting a file.

curl -X DELETE --user dave.tang@uwa.edu.au https://cloudstor.aarnet.edu.au/plus/remote.php/webdav/my_file.txt

Directory upload

If you want to upload a directory, just use tar to create an archive first and then upload the tarball.

tar -czf my_dir.tar.gz my_dir

File sharing

You can share files once you have successfully uploaded them. To share a file, click on the blank space directly after your file name (not the file icon or file text). Then click on “Sharing” and then “Public Links” and finally “Create public link”.

Session information

sessionInfo()

R version 3.5.2 (2018-12-20)
Platform: x86_64-apple-darwin15.6.0 (64-bit)
Running under: macOS Mojave 10.14.5

Matrix products: default
BLAS: /Library/Frameworks/R.framework/Versions/3.5/Resources/lib/libRblas.0.dylib
LAPACK: /Library/Frameworks/R.framework/Versions/3.5/Resources/lib/libRlapack.dylib

locale:
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attached base packages:
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[5] readr_1.3.1     tidyr_0.8.3     tibble_2.0.1    ggplot2_3.1.0  
[9] tidyverse_1.2.1

loaded via a namespace (and not attached):
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