Adding or Editing Cloud Folders

You can add a folder in the cloud drive for a user, or edit an existing folder. The folder can be for a specific user or for a team project.

Team projects are shared equally by the collaborators and the initial owner’s name is not displayed as part of the folder name. So that a user can use a team project that does not use personal storage:

• The user can request that a folder in the cloud drive is a team project with the storage allocation taken from the storage provisioned for that team portal and not from the folder owner’s storage quota.
• Administrators can define team projects in the cloud drive for a user, with the storage allocation taken from the storage provisioned for that team portal and not from the folder owner’s storage quota.

To add or edit a cloud folder:

1. Select Global File System > Cloud Drive Folders in the navigation pane.
   The Cloud Drive Folders page is displayed.
   

2. Either,

   • Create a new folder, click New.
     The New Cloud Drive Folders page is displayed.
     

     When the portal is licensed for global file locking, a Global File Locking option is displayed in the navigation page and the cloud drive folder configuration includes the option to enable Global File Locking.
     
     For details, see Configuring a Folder with File Locking.

   Or,

   • Edit an existing folder, click the folder's name.
     The folder page is displayed with the folder name as the page title.
     
     Notes

     Archives and Compliance Vaults tabs are displayed for an existing cloud folder if Archive or Compliance Vault was set up when the cloud folder was first defined. For details, see Managing CTERA Archive or Folder (WORM) Compliance: CTERA VAULT.
     

     When the portal is licensed for global file locking, the cloud drive folder configuration includes the option to enable Global File Locking. For details, see Configuring a Folder with File Locking.

3. Complete the fields:
   Details

   • Name – A name for the folder. CTERA recommends appending -CF to the name to identify the folder as the root cloud drive folder.
     Notes

     Renaming a nested cloud folder makes the folder inaccessible to every edge filer that includes this share.
     The name cannot be changed when the cloud drive folder was defined as an Archive folder, a Compliance Vault folder, or when the storage type is Fusion Direct.

   • Description (Optional) – A description for the folder.
   • Owner – The user to own the folder. The owner controls access to the folder.

   Storage Type

   • Folder Group – A folder group for the folder. You select the folder group from the Folder Group drop-down list.
   • Fusion Direct – A folder that unifies file and object storage so that data can be accessed as files through SMB or NFS and as objects through S3.

   Folder Type

   • Cloud Folder – For a new cloud folder for personal and shared use.
   • Archive – For a new cloud folder for data to be stored using secondary storage.
   • Compliance Vault – For a new cloud folder protected with Write Once Read Many (WORM) compliance.

Global File Locking – Displayed when the portal is licensed for global file locking. See Configuring a Folder with File Locking.

Quota

• Owner Quota – The storage quota allowed for this folder is taken from the storage quota of the folder owner. If the owner attempts to use more than this amount of storage, for example, by uploading a file to the folder that causes the quota to be exceeded, the file is not uploaded. The quota is also enforced on the folder on CTERA Edge Filers.
• Folder Quota – The amount of storage allowed for this folder, which cannot be more than the storage quota of the team portal. The value must be an integer value. If a user attempts to use more than this amount of storage, for example, by uploading a file to the folder after the folder quota has been reached, the file is not uploaded. If a file that when uploaded causes the quota to be exceeded the file will be uploaded. Additional files will also be uploaded until the folder quota is checked against the folder size, which is checked every 5 minutes. If the folder quota has then been exceeded, no more files will be uploaded. The quota is also enforced on the folder on CTERA Edge Filers. For details about managing folder quotas, see Managing Cloud Drive Folder Quotas.
  Note

  The CTERA Messaging service must be implemented by the global administrator for the folder quota to be applied to CTERA Edge Filers. For details about setting up the CTERA Messaging service, see Managing the CTERA Messaging Service.

  Attributes
• Enable Windows ACLs – Select this option if you are syncing a CTERA Edge Filer share to a CTERA Portal including the NT ACLs and extended attributes on the CTERA Edge Filer. The files are saved in the portal using the NT ACL settings defined on the files. For more information, see Maintaining Windows File Server Structure and ACLs in CTERA Portal Folders.
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  Enable Windows ACLs is set by default. If Enable Windows ACLs is set all content in the folder cannot be shared by an end user using a public link.
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• Extended Attributes – Select this option if you are syncing a CTERA Edge Filer share to a CTERA Portal including extended attributes on the CTERA Edge Filer. The files are saved in the portal using the extended attributes defined on the files. Files defined with macOS tags defined can be synced to multiple edge filers with their tags. The macOS extended file attributes are part of the item’s metadata and macOS tags are only supported when defining a new cloud folder, by checking Extended Attributes in the New Cloud Drive Folder window in the CTERA Portal.
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  If Extended Attributes is checked, Enable Windows ACLs is also checked and cannot be unchecked while Extended Attributes is checked.
  
  Tags can only be defined for a new cloud folder. When macOS Tags are enabled for the cloud folder, Windows ACLs are also enabled and cannot be disabled.
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5. If you are an Archive Operatot, or either a Compliance Officer or Read/Write Administrator with the Manage Data Archive permission enabled, described in Managing Administrator Users, you can set the archiving that will apply to the cloud folder, described in Managing CTERA Archive.
   Note

   The Archive option can only be defined when first defining the cloud drive folder. If you do not know the required compliance, CTERA recommends enabling archiving and leaving the settings as they are. In this case you will be able to edit the folder to configure archiving at a later date, but this option will not be available if you do not enable archiving when creating a folder.

6. If you are a Compliance Officer or a Read/Write Administrator with the Manage Compliance Settings permission enabled, described in Managing Administrator Users, you can set the compliance that will apply to the cloud folder, described in Folder (WORM) Compliance: CTERA Vault.
   Note

   The Compliance Vault option can only be defined when first defining the cloud drive folder. If you do not know the required compliance, CTERA recommends enabling compliance and leaving the settings as they are. In this case you will be able to edit the folder to configure compliance at a later date, but this option will not be available if you do not enable compliance when creating a folder.

7. Click Save.

The cloud drive folder is created or updated.