Mount Hubic cloud disk on your local Linux

Hubic is the french Dropbox clone, created by OVH, offering 25Gb storage for free. When it came out there weren’t many clients for different operating systems but there was a useful (undocumented) feature: the webdav. Using webdav you could mount your Hubic drive on any system to copy your files.

Some weeks ago, when the latest OS client (the Linux one) came out, OVH decided to remove the webdav access… but unfortunately the client currently has some bugs and isn’t as easy to use as “copy a file into a folder”.

Fortunately, you can get your local Hubic folder back using Swift and CloudFuse. Here are the instructions to get it working on Centos6.

Overview

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To simplify the usage of swift, you can use a PHP swift proxy to your hubic account.

Install the Swift Proxy

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git clone https://github.com/Toorop/HubicSwiftGateway.git
mv HubicSwiftGateway/src/www /var/www/html/hubic
mkdir /var/www/html/cache
chown apache:apache /var/www/html/cache

Here we’re assuming your Apache root folder is /var/www/html. And naturally, Apache with PHP 5 should already be installed on your system.

Install CloudFuse

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Now you can install the cloudfuse project. For Centos6 I created the RPM to simplify your work, but if you prefer you can download the sources from github and follow the instructions on the README to build it. The RPMs are located on my repo: http://repo.mornati.net/extras/. You can configure it as yum repository for your centos server using:

echo > /etc/yum.repos.d/mornati-extras.repo << EOF
[mornati-extras]
name=MornatiNet-Extras
baseurl=http://repo.mornati.net/extras/centos/$releasever/$basearch/
gpgcheck=0
enalbed=1
EOF

And install then cloudfuse using yum

yum -y install cloudfuse

To allow a normal user to mount the Hubic drive using CloudFuse, the user must be in the fuse group, and the mount point should be owned by the fuse group.

usermod -aG fuse mmornati
chgrp fuse /mnt/hubic; chmod g+w /mnt/hubic
chgrp fuse /mnt/hubic; chmod g+w /mnt/cubic

Configuration

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Before you can mount your hubic drive, you need to configure your account data in a file named .cloudfuse in the home directory of the user you want to use to mount.

username=hubicuname
api_key=hubicpassword
authurl=http://localhost/hubic/
cache_timeout=20

Where, authurl is the URL to your Swift HTTP proxy. So, in my example, the proxy was installed on the same system where I want to mount the Hubic drive too.

Mounting

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Now you’re ready to mount your Hubic drive on your system:

/usr/local/bin/cloudfuse /mnt/hubic/ -o noauto_cache,sync_read

If everything worked, you should be able to list your Hubic files

mmornati@desktop ~$ ls /mnt/hubic/default
Backup  Documents  Images  Videos