A connected volume is a standard file storage configured to be accessible from the remote synchronization agents, sized accordingly to the project needs, expandable or shrinkable later on the fly.
¶ Network
Please open a port for SSH on your firewall to the machine you will use to serve the files.
In case of a normal configuration only one IP address will access your volume and you can authorize this IP address exclusively to increase security. This IP address is specific to each project and will be sent to you at setup time.
Please indicate the port number you will open if it is different from the default port 22.
¶ User
authorized_keysunder the user account that you will configure to access the volume. We don't use passwords to improve security.
The rsync command is needed and should be installed and accessible through the user's shell.
¶ Volume
An empty file named .SyncPlanetVolumeRoot in the volume's root folder is mandatory to start the synchronization process. This file allows the synchronization agents to verify that we are in the right folder.
Once every step above is completed we should have a complete URL like this one:
ssh://username@ipaddress:port/folder
This URL will then be used to add the new volume to the synchronization process.
¶ More information
To get more information about setting up a volume, an OpenSSH server and rsync on specific systems such as Synology NAS and microsoft servers please see Setup on specific systems.