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title: "Cloud Archive Swift - Manage your archives with an SFTP/SCP client"
description: "Object Storage is a storage solution that is managed primarily through the OpenStackAPI. However, you might not be familiar with managing storage space via the"
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# Cloud Archive Swift - Manage your archives with an SFTP/SCP client

Object Storage is a storage solution that is managed primarily through the OpenStackAPI. However, you might not be familiar with managing storage space via the command line. Therefore, we have developed a gateway that makes it possible to connect to your PCA container with an SFTP client.

 

## Requirements

- SFTP Client: [WinSCP](https://winscp.net/eng/download.php)
- OpenStack Login & Password
- TenantName of the project

 

## Instructions

### SFTP Client

In this example, we use WinSCP, but you can use any SFTP client. The configuration of each SFTP client is similar, as explained here, regardless of the client.

 

### OpenStackID

You can generate your OpenStack login & password using this [guide](https://docs.us.ovhcloud.com/en/public-cloud/cross-functional/create-and-delete-a-user.md).

 

### TenantName

The TenantName corresponds to the name of your Horizon Project. To get the TenantName, you need to connect to the OpenStack web interface: [https://horizon.cloud.ovh.us/](https://horizon.cloud.ovh.us/). Once logged in, the TenantName is visible at the top of the page.

 

### Connection

- Host Name: gateways.storage.YOUR\_REGION.cloud.ovh.us
- User Name: pca
- Password: ..

**Warning:**

**NOTE:** If your services are in a US data center, the URL will end with .us. If they are in another data center, the URL will end with .net.

 

### Example

If you created aPCA container in us-east-va-1:

- Host Name: gateways.storage.us-east-va-1.cloud.ovh.us
- User Name: pca
- Password:971891XXXX1214.f6nBXXXXXAmcv.SfPeASYfuWeqBZgXXXXX2XhF3DY12RkD

 

### WinSCP Setting

In this part, we will disable two WinSCP options:

**Transfer Resume / Transfer to Temporary Filename:** This option will have to be disabled because recovery is not possible withPCA, and WinSCP can return an error.

- In the **Endurance** section, select `Disable`.

**Preserve Timestamp:** Timestamp corresponds to the date of modification of the file; we disable it because, on PCA, we replace this data with the date of upload of the file.

- In the **Transfer** section, click on `Edit...`.

- Uncheck `Preserve timestamp`.

 

### Data Recovery

Data recovery requires that the object be unlocked first. A GET request must be made on the object in question. If this command is not made beforehand, your SFTP client will return an error message when attempting to download a file.

 

## Go further

Browse all the [Object Storage (S3™-compatible) guides](https://docs.us.ovhcloud.com/en/storage-and-backup/object-storage/landing-page-object-storage.md).

Browse the rest of the [OVHcloud US documentation](https://docs.us.ovhcloud.com/en/index.md) for guides on our other products and services.

Learn more about [Object Storage](https://us.ovhcloud.com/public-cloud/object-storage/) on the OVHcloud US website.