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Command line utility APIs
- Account configuration
- Get Server address
- Validate Account
- Upload
- Download
- Timeline download
- Search
- Version details
- Properties
- Status
- Create directory
- Copy and paste
- Delete
- Trash
- Rename
- Listing
- Events
- Display Quota
- Regulate bandwidth usage
- Pause / Resume upload operation
- Know the size of a particular folder / drive / volume
- Verify upload / download rate of transfer
Developer Resources
Display Quota
Retrieve your IDrive account total quota, used quota using Quota API.Syntax:
idevsutil --xml-output --password-file=<account password> --get-quota <username>@<server address>::ibackup
- --password-file=PATH_OF_PSWD_FILE
Reads account password from the specified file. Alternately, you can directly set the password using --password-file=<account password> - Username
IDrive username. If you do not have a valid username Sign up with IDrive. - Server address
Use GetServerAddress API to retrieve the IDrive server address.
Code:
idevsutil --xml-output --password-file="MyPassword" --get-quota john@<server address>::ibackup/
The above-mentioned code can be executed using any programming language across any platform (Windows, Mac and Linux).
Output:
Sample XML output:
<tree message="SUCCESS" totalquota="5368709120" usedquota="228468999" filecount="2406" />
Description:
- tree
Root node with attributes message, desc, totalquota, usedquota, filecount. - message
This attribute describes the operation as SUCCESS or ERROR. - totalquota
This attribute displays the total quota of your account in bytes. - usedquota
This attribute displays the total space used in bytes. - filecount
This attribute displays the total number of files that are available in your account.
You can make use of I / O redirection methods for redirecting IDrive EVS command line utility (idevsutil) output.
Refer code repository for more details on usage / implementation.