StableBit CloudDrive Advanced Settings

CloudDrive.Service.config

You can tweak advanced settings in Stablebit CloudDrive by editing a .config file in notepad.

The file is located in C:\Program Files\StableBit\CloudDrive\CloudDrive.Service.exe.default.config.

In order to put the file into effect, you will need to rename the .config file to CloudDrive.Service.exe.config and restart the StableBit CloudDrive system service (or reboot).

Any time you upgrade, or reinstall CloudDrive, it writes an updated "default" config file, but leaves the current "CloudDrive.Service.exe.config" alone so it doesn't alter any of your settings.

Editing the config file

Open the file in notepad. You will see an XML formatted file. If you're not familiar with XML then all that you need to know is that the values that you can change look like this:

<value>True</value>

You can change this line to:

<value>False</value>

The setting name is right above that line:

<setting name="CoveFsLogSizeMB" serializeAs="String">

In this case the name is CoveFsLogSizeMB.

There are also numerical values and time values.

Settings

Settings are organized by function.

AmazonCloudDrive

AmazonCloudDrive_ClientId - Override the client ID to use with Amazon Cloud Drive.
AmazonCloudDrive_ClientSecret - Override the client secret to use with Amazon Cloud Drive.

ChunkId

ChunkId_MemoryLimit - The amount of memory (RAM) to use for caching chunk IDs (for providers that don't have a way of downloading files by file name).

CloudDrive

CloudDrive_CultureOverride - Overrides the UI culture setting. When set, text will appear in a different language than your OS culture. Set to a culture string such as "de", "es", "fr", etc... This works with remote control as well. When connecting to a StableBit CloudDrive machine with an overridden culture, the UI on the connecting machine will be in the overridden culture.
CloudDrive_PingHost - The IP to ping in order to determine if there is an Internet connection available. StableBit CloudDrive will delay service startup and cloud drive mounting until there is an Internet connection available.
CloudDrive_ServiceLoggingEnabled - Enables normal service logging, such as remote control info, cloud provider I/O info, etc...
CloudDrive_WaitForInternetS - How long to wait for an Internet connection to become available before allowing the service to complete startup and mount the first cloud drive (set to 0 to start immediately and not wait).

CloudFsDisk

CloudFs_LogSizeMB - The binary kernel log size. 100MB can be from a few minutes to 10 minutes worth of logs, depending on I/O activity. The kernel binary log records every operation on the cloud drive in a high performance and compact log file.
CloudFsDisk_Tracing - When set to True, kernel driver tracing will be enabled by default at all times. Tracing logs are written to %ProgramData%\StableBit CloudDrive\Service\Logs\CloudFsDisk. They are written in a binary format and can be submitted to technical support for analysis.
CloudFs_TracingFlushS - This sets flush to disk the interval. 0 will flush on every trace.
CloudDrive_PingHost - Sets the IP address of the host we use to verify that there is an active Internet connection.
CloudDrive_WaitForInternetS - Sets the amount of time that we will wait for a response when checking for Internet connectivity.

DeleteCloudDrive

DeleteCloudDrive_Retries - How many times to retry deleting a cloud drive's metadata and data when an error is encountered.

IoManager

IoManager_DefaultConnectionLimit - The maximum number of simultaneous HTTP connections that the service is allowed to create.
IoManager_HttpConnectionTimeoutMS - The maximum allowed duration of an HTTP connection in MS. The duration is calculated from the time that a connection is attempted until the final response is received.
IoManager_HttpReadWriteTimeoutMS - The maximum allowed duration of an HTTP upload / download in MS.
IoManager_ReadAbort - Maximum amount of time that a read thread is allowed to run before the thread is aborted (this is a secondary safety measure, if the timeout fails).
IoManager_ReadRetries - How many times to retry provider reads before returning an error to the disk.
IoManager_ReadThreads - The default number of read threads when creating a new cloud drive, unless overridden by the provider.
IoManager_UseHttpCompression - Set to True to use HTTP compression, set to False otherwise.
IoManager_WriteAbort - Maximum amount of time that a write thread is allowed to run before the thread is aborted (this is a secondary safety measure, if the timeout fails).
IoManager_WriteRetries - How many times to retry provider reads before giving up and showing an error to the user.
IoManager_WriteThreads - The default number of write threads when creating a new cloud drive, unless overridden by the provider.

LocalIo

LocalIo_ReleaseHandlesDelayMS - For the Local Disk provider and the File Share provider, how long to wait (in MS) after the last provider I/O call before closing all of the handles to the provider's data.

PinDiskMetadata

PinDiskMetadata_IntervalM - This sets how often to check for file system metadata changes when pinning data to the local cache, in minutes.

RemoteControl

RemoteControl_Port - Specifies the port used by StableBit CloudDrive for remote management.
RemoteControl_MulticastGroupIp - The multicast group IP to use for peer discovery.
RemoteControl_MulticastGroupPort - The multicast group port to use for peer discovery.
RemoteControl_MulticastTimeToLive - Controls the number of "hops" the remote control packets will travel before being dropped, to prevent the network from being flooded.
RemoteControl_StaticPeerSeekTime - How often to check whether an offline static peer has gone online.

ValidateLogins

ValidateLogins_MaxDegreeOfParallelism - When first starting StableBit CloudDrive, how many threads to use in order to validate your existing login credentials.

WholeChunkIoImplementation

WholeChunkIoImplementation_PartialWriteAggregationMS - When a cloud provider doesn't support writing partial chunks (which is very common), we aggregate partial shared write requests into a master chunk write request. This is a very complicated optimization and you shouldn't change this value unless instructed to do so by technical support.

Don't forget to rename the config file after you make the change and restart the server (or service), as noted at the top of this page.

RemoteControl.xml

Allows you to configure some of the settings for the Remote Control features of the CloudDrive User Interface.

The file is located in C:\Program Files\StableBit\CloudDrive\RemoteControl.default.xml on the server.

In order to put the file into effect, you will need to rename it to RemoteControl.xml and restart the server (or just restart the StableBit CloudDrive system service).

Any time you upgrade, or reinstall CloudDrive, it writes an updated RemoteControl.default.xml file, so it will include any updated settings but leaves the current RemoteControl.xml alone so it doesn't alter any of your settings.

MulticastDiscovery

This setting is configured to be "enabled" by default, so that the User Interface will automatically find clients. However, you can set the value to "False" and this will only list entries that you have manually added to the "Peer" list.

The setting should look like this:

<MulticastDiscovery Enabled="True" />

Peers

The Peers Section allows you to specify a list of computers that you want available, in cases such as a specific computer isn't picked up by the automatic discovery, or if you want to disable automatic discovery and manually list the computers available.

All clients must be running the same version of CloudDrive, and you must have any additional balancer Plugins installed as well.

Peer

You need to manually create an entry for each computer to be added. You can use the computer's host/DNS name, or the IP address, and you can specify a different port (if the service is configured for that, see Control above).

<Peer>192.168.0.123</Peer>
<Peer>STORAGESERVER</Peer>
<Peer>192.168.0.123:27515</Peer>
<Peer>STORAGESERVER:27515</Peer>