Mounting S3 storage with Mountain Duck

Mountain Duck enables you to mount and access Virtuozzo Infrastructure S3 storage as a regular disk drive. Do the following:

1. If your service provider has provided you with an SSL certificate, install it.

2. In Mountain Duck, click New Bookmark.

   

3. In the properties window, select Amazon S3 profile from the first drop-down list and specify the following parameters:

   • Disk drive name in the Nickname field
   • Endpoint DNS name in the Server field
   • Access key ID in the Username field

   Click Connect.

   

4. In the login window, specify Secret Access Key and click Login.

   

Mountain Duck will mount the S3 storage as a disk drive. On the disk, you can manage buckets and store files in them.

Creating S3 buckets on mounted S3 storage

Windows and macOS, operating systems supported by Mountain Duck, treat buckets as folders in case the S3 storage is mounted as a disk drive. In both operating systems, the default folder name contains spaces. This violates bucket naming conventions (refer to S3 bucket and key naming policies), therefore you cannot create a new bucket directly on the mounted S3 storage. To create a bucket on a mounted S3 storage, create a folder with a name complying with DNS naming conventions elsewhere and copy it to the root of the mounted S3 storage.