Upload

Quick links

• Full and Incremental upload
• ‘Mirror’ and ‘Relative’ path upload
• Multiple computers data upload
• Throttle your Bandwidth usage for upload
• Pause / Resume Upload
• Code / Output management

Full and Incremental upload

It transfers only modified portions after full initial data upload. Incremental data upload is a default feature.

Only modified portions of the file will be transferred during incremental upload. It uses the advanced patching technology to determine the changed data at source and applies only modified blocks of the changed files, on to the data that has been uploaded. All the incremental copies will be retained as versions*.

Note: To view the data upload type, such as Full upload, Incremental upload or the file is already present in server (file in sync); use --type parameter / switch along with the upload code

Example:

idevsutil --xml-output --password-file="MyPassword" --pvt-key=enc_key --type --files-from=filelist / john@<server address>::ibackup/

‘Mirror’ and ‘Relative’ path upload

Mirror Path:

This replicates the file / folder hierarchy present on the local computer to your IDrive account. This is the default feature.

Relative Path:

This will not replicate the folder hierarchy of the file as it exists on your local computer but instead would just upload the file to a corresponding folder of your choice on your IDrive account.

Enable the ‘Relative’ path upload by using the '--no-mirror' parameter / switch.

Following is the sample code used for the upload of file(s) / folder(s) from the path ‘C:\DATA\DOC’ to “Documents” folder on your IDrive account.

Code:

idevsutil --xml-output --password-file="MyPassword" –-no-mirror --pvt-key=enc_key --files-from=filelist /C/DATA/DOC/ john@<server address>::ibackup/Documents/

filelist will have the file(s) / folder(s) path that you would like to upload from the location C:\DATA\DOC;

For Instance: content of the filelist file is as follows:

• /office_inventory.doc
• /tax_details.xls
• /DATE/daily_status.doc

Multiple computers data upload

With this feature, data from multiple computers can be uploaded to your account. Data is uploaded to a folder with the same name or a user specific name to prevent data overlap.

To enable this feature, use '--mpc=NAME' parameter / switch.

a. To create a folder by default with name as that of your computer name and to upload all the file(s) / folder(s) into it.

Code:

idevsutil --xml-output --password-file="MyPassword" --mpc=0 --pvt-key=enc_key --files-from=filelist / john@<server address>::ibackup/

b. To create a custom folder name of your choice and to upload all the file(s) / folder(s) to the same.

Syntax:

idevsutil --xml-output --password-file=<account password> --mpc=<provide a name of your choice> --pvt-key=enc_key --files-from=filelist / <username>@<server address>::ibackup/

Code:

idevsutil --xml-output --password-file="MyPassword" --mpc=’MY COMP’ --pvt-key=enc_key --files-from=filelist / john@<server address>::ibackup/

Throttle bandwidth usage for upload

The Bandwidth Throttle option allows you to adjust the percentage of Internet bandwidth to be used by the IDrive EVS application. It effectively divides the bandwidth between various Internet-based applications to help maintain their efficiency.

By default, the percentage is set to 100 and can be adjusted as required.

Refer Regulate bandwidth usage API for more details.

Pause / Resume Upload

You can Pause and Resume the upload operation when it is in progress.

Refer Pause/Resume Upload operation API for more detail.

Code / Output management

This section explains about the sample code execution and the output generated during the upload operation.

Content of filelist file:

• /C/Images/
• /C/Archive.zip

To upload “Images” and “Archive.zip” folder from “C” drive.

Code:

idevsutil --xml-output --password-file="MyPassword" --pvt-key=enc_key --files-from=filelist / 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:

<item size="25399" tottrf_sz="25399" tot_sz="86437" per="100%" rate_trf="0.12kB/s" fname="C/Images/Image1.jpg"/>

<item size="34399" tottrf_sz="34399" tot_sz="98437" per="100%" rate_trf="0.21kB/s" fname="C/Archive.zip"/>

Description:

The following details are displayed during upload operation:

• item size
  Size of the particular file
• tottrf_sz
  Amount of data transferred with respect to the total upload set size
• tot_sz
  Total size of your upload set
• per
  Percentage of data transferred for a particular file
• rate_trf
  Rate of data transfer
• fname
  File name

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.