Files.com provides integration with Filebase, allowing you to make your Filebase storage available to your users as Files.com folders. Filebase provides an easy-to-use decentralized storage network, which you can now access with Files.com.

Filebase integration at Files.com

With Files.com, Filebase storage can be connected as a Remote Server Mount, making the Filebase storage content available in real time, or connected as a Remote Server Sync, allowing you to push, pull, or synchronize files between Filebase and other Files.com storage locations.

Integrating Files.com with Filebase allows your users to access Filebase storage through Files.com, using a web browser, SFTP, FTP, WebDAV, the Files.com Desktop App, or the Files.com Command Line (CLI) App.

Files.com integrates with Filebase using the Filebase APIs via HTTPS, providing secure encrypted data transmission between the two platforms.

Connecting to Filebase

To connect to Filebase, add your Filebase storage bucket as a Remote Server in Files.com.

Type "Remote servers" in the search box at the top of every page, and then click on the matching result. Click the Add new remote server button, and select Filebase.

Authentication Information

The following items are required for connecting Files.com to Filebase:

Internal name for this connection - An internal identifier to refer to this connection.

Bucket - The name of your Filebase storage bucket, as shown in your Filebase web portal > Buckets page.

Access Key - The Filebase Access Key, as shown in your Filebase web portal > Access Keys page.

Secret - The Secret that corresponds to the above Access Key, as shown in your Filebase web portal > Access Keys page.

Once Filebase has been added as a Remote Server, you can integrate it with Files.com as either a Remote Server Mount or Remote Server Sync.

Remote Server Mount

Files.com's Remote Server Mount feature gives you the ability connect a specific folder on Files.com to a Remote Server in a real time manner.

The Files.com folder then becomes a client, or window, accessing the files stored in your Filebase storage in real time. Any actions performed in the Files.com folder, such as upload, download, create, and delete, will "pass through" and be performed in Filebase in real time. The reverse is also true where any actions performed in Filebase will be reflected in the Files.com folder. Actions are not limited to the Files.com web portal, so users can also interact using SFTP, FTP, WebDAV, Files.com Desktop App, Files.com Command Line (CLI) App, and the Files.com RESTful APIs.

From the Files icon on the left, navigate to the location where you want the mounted folder to be and create a new folder. Navigate into the newly created folder and click the Folder Settings button on the top right.

Select Remote Server Mount from the list and click the Add new remote server mount button. Select the entry for your Filebase storage bucket.

Choose the Remote folder, which is the portion of the remote file system that will be mounted into this folder on Files.com. You can either leave the default "/" (the remote server's root directory) or click on Choose a different folder link and navigate to the remote folder you want this folder to connect to.

Click the Save button. The folder will reload and immediately list the remote folders and files from the selected remote path.

Remote Server Sync

The Files.com Remote Server Sync feature gives you the ability to push or pull files to or from remote servers.

A remote sync can perform a "push", where files from your Files.com site are transferred to the remote server, a "pull", where files are transferred from the remote server to your Files.com site, or a two-way "sync", where files that are new or changed in either location are pushed and pulled to each other to maintain a synchronized state between the folder on your Files.com site and the folder on the remote server.

From the Files icon on the left, navigate to the location where you want the mounted folder to be and create a new folder. Navigate into the newly created folder and click the Folder Settings button on the top right.

Select Sync to/from remote server from the list and click the Add new remote server sync button. Select the entry for your Filebase storage bucket.

Optionally enter a Name and Description for your reference or to inform others about this configuration.

Sync direction

Choose your desired Sync direction. There are three choices:

1. Push to the remote server: This option sends files and folders from this Files.com folder to the Filebase storage bucket.
2. Pull from the remote server: This option retrieves files from the Filebase storage bucket and saves them in this Files.com folder.
3. Two-way sync: this option checks for new files, deleted files, and changed modification dates on both sides and then pushes and pulls as needed to keep the folders synchronized.

Delete or Keep after copying

You have the option to delete files on the source server after a push or pull. Use the After copying menu to select whether you would like files that are successfully transferred to be deleted from or kept on the source server.

Remote folder

Choose the Remote folder, which is the location in the remote file system that will be synchronized with this folder on Files.com. You can either leave the default "/" (the remote server's root directory) or click on Choose a different folder link and navigate to the remote folder you want this folder to synchronize with.

Synchronization interval

Specify the number of minutes between synchronizations. The minimum value is 5.

Click the Save button. The synchronization will immediately start, then repeat after the interval period specified above.

Automations

Folders that have been configured with either Remote Server Mount, or Remote Server Sync, to Filebase can also be used with automations, allowing you to include Filebase storage buckets as source locations or destinations for your automations.

Case Sensitivity

Be aware of case sensitivity differences when copying, moving, or syncing files and folders between Filebase and other storage locations. Filebase is a case sensitive system whereas other systems may not be. This can cause files to be overwritten, and folders to have their contents merged, if their case insensitive names are a match.