https://owncloud.cesnet.cz reached a thousand active users on 30th of June and the number is increasing.

New text of the Terms of Service has been published today. They come into effect in three months, until then the current version is valid. The Terms were mainly updated to reflect real procedures related to Virtual Organisation handling.

Hierarchical storage in Pilsen (*.du1.cesnet.cz) will be inaccessible on May 7, 2014, from 8.30 AM till 7 PM (expected). Major software patches (bug fixes) will be applied by the system vendor.

FileSender service shell be available during the outage, short periods of inaccessibility can happen though. On the opposite, ownCloud service as well as other storage facilities will not be affected.

We apologise for the inconvenience and hope for your understanding

ownCloud is a service to access, sync, and share files. ownCloud is now hosted by CESNET storage servers. It provides web access to your files and synchronizes your data among your computers as well as mobile devices. Access to the service is federated.

Documentation is available in the documentation section. You are advised to check the documentation especially for links to free ownCloud mobile clients as well as setup instructions.

To create an account and to access the service, use https://owncloud.cesnet.cz.

Certificate was changed on the servers store[1-6].du1.cesnet.cz on 15 February 2014. New certificate can be identified by the following fingerprints:

   MD5: FF:72:04:48:33:75:B8:BE:46:27:D6:CC:0B:C9:4A:D5
   SHA1: 41:6C:8B:9A:8E:50:57:1D:28:31:D6:92:E4:6D:45:3C:29:B1:9E:85

The certificate was signed by these Certificate authorities.

Old certificate identified by fingerprints:

   MD5: 10:3A:1E:0E:0F:8B:DE:8F:40:E4:6D:3E:D3:6F:D6:F6
   SHA1: CF:51:14:E6:79:BD:CA:9B:09:6D:F7:DF:7C:CC:95:AA:FE:E5:A2:BC

is no longer valid.

Today was overcome by another “nice” number: storage located in Pilsen administered for 2 PB of data that is stored. This number represents cast of 1001 tapes.

We are looking for storage specialist for participation in international and national projects and advanced cooperation with user groups. For details and requirements, see the special page.

This is a service for copying large amounts of data over long distances using a web interface. You can transfer data between your home directory in the data storage CESNET and the other remote repositories supporting GlobusOnline or your workstation/laptop with installed client.

You can read more in the following guide.

Users from MetaCentrum can get direct access to the data stored in Pilsen. The storage CESNET is connected to all machines of MetaCentrum. Users from MetaCentrum can use storage for storing valuable archival data.

Into resources available in a virtual organization called Storage, we added a data storage area with migration policy tape_tape. Migration policy determines to which the storage layer the data will be stored and under what circumstances it has changed.

Users from VO Storage (including already exist) was a reference to the space added to their home directories. The current policy cache_tape suited mainly for storing small data that is more vivid. Tape_tape space is suitable for storing personal backups and archives that are rarely accessed. Disk space policy tape_tape also allows you to set greater quotas for more comfortable working with large data. If the user finds quota insufficient, we can change it.

For details, see on description of migration politicies.

We changed shell for SSH access to the store in Pilsen to BASH. Its main advantages are

• you don't need to call ssh for each command you want to execute,
• you can use the command output for the input of another command by using pipe

If you are using ssh access to the data storage in scripts, you don't need to change anything. But the new setting is more user friendly.

Detailed description of ssh access you can find in guide.

From now we are fully support HPN-SSH patch that was previously deployed on our servers. Patch brings higher speed transfer using SSH protocol. Improvements can be observed even without the application of patches on your side, but the best results are obtained by using a modified SSH client, which automatically starts using parallel AES encryption.

Since rsync, SCP and SFTP protocols are tunneled through SSH, acceleration is reflected even in these protocols.

For detailed description of the procedure including its application, see guide.

We made extensive reconfiguration of arrays stored in Pilsen. We changed the location of the home directories and directories of each virtual organizations.

We recommend users to familiarize themselves with the new structure, which is described in guide.

Certificate was changed on the servers store[1-6].du1.cesnet.cz on 11 February 2013. New certificate can be identified by the following fingerprints:

   MD5: 10:3A:1E:0E:0F:8B:DE:8F:40:E4:6D:3E:D3:6F:D6:F6
   SHA1: CF:51:14:E6:79:BD:CA:9B:09:6D:F7:DF:7C:CC:95:AA:FE:E5:A2:BC

The certificate was signed by these Certificate authorities.

Old certificate identified by fingerprints:

   MD5: DE:78:98:F8:5A:3F:B1:BD:96:2B:D9:C0:E0:A1:DB:3D
   SHA1: 53:A6:E9:FE:68:7A:94:FB:F2:13:C2:57:0F:F1:86:9E:10:29:84:8C

is no longer valid.

2 February 2013 was updated FileSender from version 1.1 to 1.5rc1 (https://filesender.cesnet.cz/). Between main advantages of this version belong full HTML5 support and a new languages support.

With support for HTML5 in the browser FireFox or Chrome we can upload or download files without the need to install Adobe Flash Player. Browser Internet Explorer in the most popular versions has still problem with HTML5, so there is still required a presence Adobe Flash Player to upload the file.

Language in FileSender will automatically switch according to language preferences in the browser - to user witch Czech preferences will automatically appears Czech environment, to user with Norwegian preferences will automatically appears Norwegian.

Update was made without losing data - files previously recorded or created invitations are still valid.