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I got myself 5 TB of cloud storage at Wasabi. Now I want to establish a connection between my Ubuntu server and the Wasabi bucket – that's what the storage is called. I chose the storage region Frankfurt am Main in (Germany) at Wasabi (Wasabi EU Central 2 (Frankfurt), which we should keep in mind for later. To connect to my Wasabi cloud, i.e. mount it, I want to use the program s3fs. Previous installations should not be present on the server, so I delete those first as a precaution:

sudo apt remove fuse

I then reinstall s3fs:

sudo apt install s3fs

In my Wasabi account, I create two keys under “Access Key”. On my server, I create a file to contain the two keys. I put the file under /etc/ for example, the file itself could be named “passwd-s3fs”:

vi /etc/passwd-s3fs

Now the vim editor should open and I copy the two keys into the file, without spaces, key 1 is separated from key 2 with a colon.

key_1xyz:key_2xyz

I adjust the permissions of the file:

chmod 600 /etc/passwd-s3fs

I gave my wasabi bucket the name "wasabi-bucket1". My mount point, which is the directory that will communicate with my Wasabi cloud, will be here:

/home/MYUSERNAME/s3-bucket

So I create an appropriate directory

mkdir /home/MYUSERNAME/s3-bucket

Now to connect to my Wasabi cloud the storage region is of interest. The different URLs of the regions can be found here: https://wasabi-support.zendesk.com/hc/en-us/articles/360015106031-What-are-the-service-URLs-for-Wasabi-s-different-regions-

Since I chose the Frankfurt region, my URL is “s3.eu-central-2.wasabisys.com”. Now I have all the info to establish a connection:

s3fs wasabi-bucket1 /home/MYUSERNAME/s3-bucket -o passwd_file=/etc/passwd-s3fs -o url=https://s3.eu-central-2.wasabisys.com

Changing to the s3-bucket directory:

cd /home/MYUSERNAME/s3-bucket

If there are already files in the Wasabi cloud, they should now be in the s3-bucket directory as well. Conversely, I will create a file on my server in the s3-bucket directory:

touch test.file

This file should now also be visible in wasabi-bucket1 in my Wasabi Cloud. I can terminate the connection again with

fusermount -uz /home/MYUSERNAME/s3-bucket