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A collection of 15 posts

s3

Mounting your object storage bucket as a local filesystem with Mountpoint

AWS has released an open source client called Mountpoint that allows you to easily mount your object storage bucket as a local filesystem. This blog post shows you the pros and cons of Mountpoint, and how to use it.

beginner-collection

Managing versions in object storage

Enabling versioning on an object storage bucket is a great way to make sure you never lose important work, but how exactly do you get a file version back if you want to revert your changes? This blog post covers everything you need to know about version management!

beginner-collection

How to recover archived files from Glacier

The process of retrieving archived files from Glacier is pretty quick and simple once you know how, and this blog post will teach you just that!

s3

How to empty an Object Storage Bucket

This blog post will teach you how to easily empty all objects from an object storage bucket to get it ready for deletion.

s3

How To Make Your Object Storage Look Like a File System with FUSE

In RONIN, we treat Object Storage (which are Amazon S3 Buckets) as a separate thing from file systems not just to throw more jargon into a complicated space, but for Really Good Reasons. If you are not nodding vigorously along with this first sentence please read The Fine Print at

storage

Everything You Never Needed to Know About Drives, File Systems and Storage

When you build a computer, it needs storage. When you build a computer on the cloud, you try to get by with the smallest disk drives (or volumes) you can to fit the software and data that you have, so that you can avoid paying for disk space you don't need.

linux

A Gentle Guide to Linux File Permissions

Linux file permissions are mysterious, and when faced with permissions errors, most researchers respond either by using sudo or by changing the permissions so that everyone can do everything to the files. The first is the equivalent of finding a locked door and bashing it in....

linux

An Introduction to Linux Directories and the PATH Variable

To effectively manage your compute environment in the cloud, you need to understand the Linux directory structure, as well as key environment variables such as the PATH variable. This blog post is here to teach you the basics.

s3

Connect R to Object Storage

There's so much research data out there and R is a popular way to mash it up, scrape it down, run statistics on it and make it beautiful. You can access research data available in object storage buckets directly from within R....

storage

Data Management in RONIN

Effective data management is crucial in the cloud but with so many storage options available, things can be a little confusing. This blog post summarises all you need to know about the different data storage options in RONIN and when to use them.

data

Copying Large Datasets to Your Object Storage Bucket with the AWS Command Line Interface

The beauty of having your data in your object storage (S3 bucket) is that any machine or projects you create in RONIN can access the data.. only if you want it to. If you're a Windows or Mac user, you can read this article on copying data to an object

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Connect Your Linux Machine to Your Object Storage Bucket with AWS Command Line Interface

Unfortunately there doesn't seem to be many nice 'clickety click' interfaces for moving files between Linux and Object Stores... But that's ok! Let's get started!

object

Connect Your Windows / Mac to Your Object Storage Bucket with Cyberduck

In our previous article, we explained Object Storage, versioning and archiving. Once you have created an object store and generated a key, you can then connect to it!

object

Working with Object Storage (AWS S3 and Glacier) in RONIN

We've been busy here at RONIN, simplifying Amazon's S3, versioning and Glacier, so that everyone can benefit from what the cloud has to offer, not just tech savvy nerds like us.

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Transferring Files to Your New Machine with Cyberduck

Now that you've created a machine, we will use Cyberduck to move our precious files up to this machine.