netstore

Client-server application for distributed file storage written in C++.

This is only a documentation, for more details look at my webiste.

Build

Boost program options library is needed to build the application (for parsing command line arguments).

git clone https://github.com/pbrw/netstore
cd netstore/src
make

Run server

Flags

• -g multicast_address required
• -p udp_port required
• -f shared_folder_path required
• -b max_disc_space optional, default is 52428800 bytes
• -t timeout optional, defautl is 5 second

Example:

mkdir shared
./netstore-server -g 239.0.0.0 -p 8000 -f shared/

Run client

Flags

• -g multicast_address required
• -p udp_port required
• -f out_folder_path required
• -t timeout optional, defautl is 5 second

Example:

mkdir output
./netstore-client -g 239.0.0.0 -p 8000 -o output/

Client commands

• discover - displays all available servers

discover
Found 192.168.0.227 (239.0.0.0) with free space 52428800

• upload %s - uploads a file to the server cloud, %s is a file path

upload file.txt
File file.txt uploaded (192.168.0.227:53415)

• search %s - lists all the file names that contain %s (possibly empty)

search le
file.txt (192.168.0.227)

• fetch %s - downloads a file with name %s and saves to output folder

search
data.txt (192.168.0.227)
file.txt (192.168.0.227)
fetch data.txt
File data.txt downloaded (192.168.0.227:51195)

• remove %s - deletes a file from the server cloud, %s is a file name

remove file.txt

• exit - closes application