Quatrix

At a glance

Capability	Support
rclone support tier	Tier 3: Supported
Checksums	None
Modification times	Kept, to 1 µs
Case-insensitive names	No
Duplicate names allowed	No
Server-side copy	Yes
Server-side move and rename	Yes
Folder move and rename	Yes, in one step
Free space reporting	Yes
Empty folders	Yes
Change notifications	No
Uploads of unknown size	No
Public links	No

Quatrix by Maytech is Quatrix Secure Compliant File Sharing | Maytech.

The initial setup for Quatrix involves getting an API Key from Quatrix. You can get the API key in the user’s profile at https://<account>/profile/api-keys or with the help of the API - https://docs.maytech.net/quatrix/quatrix-api/api-explorer#/API-Key/post_api_key_create.

See complete Swagger documentation for Quatrix.

Setup notes

In CloudMount you add this drive from the Add drive screen, and the wizard asks for the options listed under Options. The notes below come from rclone’s setup guide.

API key validity

API Key is created with no expiration date. It will be valid until you delete or deactivate it in your account. After disabling, the API Key can be enabled back. If the API Key was deleted and a new key was created, you can update it in rclone config. The same happens if the hostname was changed.

$ rclone config
Current remotes:

Name                 Type
====                 ====
remote               quatrix

e) Edit existing remote
n) New remote
d) Delete remote
r) Rename remote
c) Copy remote
s) Set configuration password
q) Quit config
e/n/d/r/c/s/q> e
Choose a number from below, or type in an existing value
 1 > remote
remote> remote
Configuration complete.
Options:
- type: quatrix
- host: some_host.quatrix.it
- api_key: your_api_key
Keep this "remote" remote?
Edit remote
Option api_key.
API key for accessing Quatrix account
Enter a string value. Press Enter for the default (your_api_key)
api_key>
Option host.
Host name of Quatrix account
Enter a string value. Press Enter for the default (some_host.quatrix.it).

Configuration complete.
Options:
- type: quatrix
- host: some_host.quatrix.it
- api_key: your_api_key
Keep this "remote" remote?
y) Yes this is OK
e) Edit this remote
d) Delete this remote
y/e/d> y

Modification times and hashes

Quatrix allows modification times to be set on objects accurate to 1 microsecond. These will be used to detect whether objects need syncing or not.

Quatrix does not support hashes, so you cannot use the --checksum flag.

Restricted filename characters

File names in Quatrix are case sensitive and have limitations like the maximum length of a filename is 255, and the minimum length is 1. A file name cannot be equal to . or .. nor contain / , \ or non-printable ascii.

Transfers

For files above 50 MiB rclone will use a chunked transfer. Rclone will upload up to --transfers chunks at the same time (shared among all multipart uploads). Chunks are buffered in memory, and the minimal chunk size is 10_000_000 bytes by default, and it can be changed in the advanced configuration, so increasing --transfers will increase the memory use. The chunk size has a maximum size limit, which is set to 100_000_000 bytes by default and can be changed in the advanced configuration. The size of the uploaded chunk will dynamically change depending on the upload speed. The total memory use equals the number of transfers multiplied by the minimal chunk size. In case there’s free memory allocated for the upload (which equals the difference of maximal_summary_chunk_size and minimal_chunk_size * transfers), the chunk size may increase in case of high upload speed. As well as it can decrease in case of upload speed problems. If no free memory is available, all chunks will equal minimal_chunk_size.

Deleting files

Files you delete with rclone will end up in Trash and be stored there for 30 days. Quatrix also provides an API to permanently delete files and an API to empty the Trash so that you can remove files permanently from your account.

Options

Standard options

The wizard asks for these when you add the drive.

api_key

API key for accessing Quatrix account

Type: string · Required

host

Host name of Quatrix account

Type: string · Required

Advanced options

The wizard shows these under Advanced options. Most drives work without changing any of them.

encoding

The encoding for the backend.

See the encoding section in the overview for more info.

Type: Encoding · Default: Slash,BackSlash,Del,Ctl,InvalidUtf8,Dot

effective_upload_time

Wanted upload time for one chunk

Type: string · Default: 4s

minimal_chunk_size

The minimal size for one chunk

Type: SizeSuffix · Default: 9.537Mi

maximal_summary_chunk_size

The maximal summary for all chunks. It should not be less than ‘transfers’*‘minimal_chunk_size’

Type: SizeSuffix · Default: 95.367Mi

hard_delete

Delete files permanently rather than putting them into the trash

Type: bool · Default: false

skip_project_folders

Skip project folders in operations

Type: bool · Default: false

description

Description of the remote.

Type: string

Storage usage

The storage usage in Quatrix is restricted to the account during the purchase. You can restrict any user with a smaller storage limit. The account limit is applied if the user has no custom storage limit. Once you’ve reached the limit, the upload of files will fail. This can be fixed by freeing up the space or increasing the quota.

Server-side operations

Quatrix supports server-side operations (copy and move). In case of conflict, files are overwritten during server-side operation.