Useful Commands

You may define environment variables to simplify Swift command calls.

# export ST_AUTH=http://swift.lan:8080/auth/v1.0
# export ST_KEY=testing
# export ST_USER=test:tester

Show information about a Swift account:

# swift stat

List containers

# swift list

List objects inside a container

# swift list container1

Upload a file

# swift upload container1 afile

Set a metadata for container or object

# swift post -m Bacula:Pass container1
# swift post -m Bacula:Pass container1 object1

Set an ACL data for container

# swift post --read-acl=www container1
# swift post --write-acl=www container1

For more information, please refer to: https://docs.openstack.org/python-swiftclient/latest/cli/index.html#swift-usage

See also

Previous articles:

• Backup

• Restore

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