Request: support LucidLink Filespaces

[daniel-toman]

LucidLink.com is a very popular cloud file sharing service among filmmakers. I would love to be able to access my LucidLink filespace in Cyberduck. I am not a developer but I have a LucidLink account and I am happy to help however I can. They offer a free 30-day trial no credit card required, so anyone could sign up free to understand how their system works. I believe they use Amazon S3 (or compatible) cloud storage. I recently donated to the Cyberduck developers. Thank you!

[dkocher]

This is not possible as LucidLink seems to lack a public API.

[daniel-toman]

Thanks for looking into it, I don't know if these links are helpful. Reading through some of these documents, it seems I may need an Enterprise level of service to access LucidLink Filespaces via API, while we are only using their Starter level. So it may not be possible for me, but it might help someone else anyway.

"data within a LucidLink mount-point can also be accessed via S3 APIs for applications that require native API List, Put, Get, Delete through an article we put together in conjunction with MinIO which can also be used in building your own object storage cluster as a backend for our Filespaces." - Migration Strategies

https://support.lucidlink.com/hc/en-us/articles/31125540936845-Access-Filespace-data-through-an-S3-proxy-gateway
https://api.lucidlink.com/docs/api/v1/#
https://support.lucidlink.com/hc/en-us/articles/31125339139981-Filespace-Data-Migration

[StraightfaceStudios]

The primary advantage of LucidLink is that it's not a file-based system but a block-based system stored in an object-based cloud. So while LucidLink integrates with S3 storage on their backend for storage, there is no way to access it directly through a tool like Cyberduck.

If though you run the S3 Proxy, you could use CyberDuck or Mountain duck... but again, the big advantage of LucidLink of offering block level access to your files vs S3 would be lost so it would arguably be a huge downgrade. The S3 Proxy is just for applications which can't access file storage, so you would be taking the longest way possible from drive-like block storage to S3 object storage back to drive-like block storage.