Storage Accounts

This article describes how you can use MSP360 (CloudBerry) Backup CLI to manage and customize storage accounts.

Adding a Storage Account

Use the addAccount command to create a new local or cloud storage account:

C:\Program Files\CloudBerryLab\CloudBerry Backup>cbb addAccount -?

Required Parameters

The following parameters must be specified to execute the addAccount command.

• -d Specifies the storage account display name.

• -st Specifies the local or cloud storage provider:

  • AmazonS3
  • Azure
  • BackBlaze
  • Clodo
  • Connectria
  • DreamObjects
  • Dunkel
  • FileSystem
  • Glacier
  • Google
  • GreenQloud
  • HostEurope
  • HPCloud
  • HPHelion
  • IDCFrontier
  • OpenStack
  • Rackspace
  • S3Compatible
  • Scality
  • Seeweb
  • Tiscali
  • Walrus
  • Wasabi

• -ac
  Specifies one of the following:

  • The Access Key for Amazon S3,
  • or Account for Microsoft Azure,
  • or Query ID for Walrus,
  • or User Name for OpenStack, Rackspace, Clodo, and HPCloud.

  Not used for File System accounts.

• -sk
  Specifies one of the following:

  • The Secret Key for Amazon S3,
  • or Shared Key for Microsoft Azure,
  • or API Key for OpenStack, Rackspace, Clodo, and HPCloud.

  Not used for File System accounts.

• -c
  Specifies one of the following:

  • The Bucket Name for Amazon S3,
  • or Container Name for Microsoft Azure, OpenStack, Rackspace, Clodo, and HPCloud,
  • or Path for File System accounts.

  Make sure that the specified bucket exists in the corresponding storage.

Additional parameters are required when creating an OpenStack or Rackspace account.

• -as Specifies the authentication service (required only for OpenStack).
• -at Specifies the account type (required only for Rackspace).

Optional Parameters

You can specify the following optional parameters when adding a storage account.

• -bp Specifies the backup prefix (it is set to the computer name by default).
• -ssl Indicates whether to use the Secure Sockets Layer (SSL) protocol (it is set to "no" by default).

The following parameters define the standard output format for this command.

• -json Sends the status to stdout in JSON format.
• -xml Sends the status to stdout in XML format.

Example

The following example illustrates how to add a new Amazon S3 storage account to MSP360 (CloudBerry) Backup.

cbb addAccount -d "My S3 Account" -st "AmazonS3" -ac "accessKey" -sk "secretKey" -c "bucketName" -ssl yes

Editing a Storage Account

Use the editAccount command to customize a local or cloud storage account:

cbb editAccount -?

Required Parameters

The following parameter must be specified to execute the editAccount command.

• -d

This parameter specifies the name of the storage account to edit.

Optional Parameters

You can specify the following optional parameters to customize a storage account.

• -n

  This parameter sets a new storage account name.

• -ac
  Specifies one of the following:

  • The Access Key for Amazon S3,
  • or Account for Microsoft Azure,
  • or Query ID for Walrus,
  • or User Name for OpenStack, Rackspace, Clodo, and HPCloud.

  Not used for File System accounts.

• -sk
  Specifies one of the following:

  • The Secret Key for Amazon S3,
  • or Shared Key for Microsoft Azure,
  • or API Key for OpenStack, Rackspace, Clodo, and HPCloud.

  Not used for File System accounts.

• -c
  Specifies one of the following:

  • The Bucket Name for Amazon S3,
  • or Container Name for Microsoft Azure, OpenStack, Rackspace, Clodo, and HPCloud,
  • or Path for File System accounts.

  Make sure that the specified bucket exists in the backup storage.

• -sp
  Specifies the service point.

  Not used for AmazonS3, BackBlaze, Google, Azure, OpenStack, Rackspace, Clodo, HPCloud, and File System accounts.

• -bp Specifies the backup prefix (it is set to the computer name by default).

• -ssl Indicates whether to use the Secure Sockets Layer (SSL) protocol.

Example

The following example illustrates how to rename a storage account and enable SSL for it.

cbb editAccount -d "oldName" -n "newName" -ssl yes

Deleting a Storage Account

Use the deleteAccount command to delete a local or cloud storage account with a specified name:

cbb deleteAccount -a "accountName"

Managing Storage Accounts

Use the account command to manage and synchronize local or cloud storage accounts:

cbb account -?

Parameters

You can specify the following parameter to get a list of all available storage accounts.

• -l (-list) Lists the available storage accounts.

The following image illustrates the result of executing the account command with this parameter.

Specify the following parameters to perform a repository sync.

• -s (-sync) Triggers synchronization of an account with a specified name.
• -syncPassword (-password) Specifies the password to enable synchronization of files with encrypted names.
• -customFolders (-custom) Specifies the folders to synchronize when using a custom backup mode.

The following example illustrates how to use the parameters that are listed above.

cbb account -sync "accountName" -syncPassword "password" -customFolders "C:\Source, C:\Temp"

The following parameters define the standard output format for this command.

• -json Sends the status to stdout in JSON format.
• -xml Sends the status to stdout in XML format.
• -output Specifies the output format: "short" or "full" (the default value)