# Sia

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```
NAME:
   singularity storage update sia - Sia Decentralized Cloud

USAGE:
   singularity storage update sia [command options] <name|id>

DESCRIPTION:
   --api-url
      Sia daemon API URL, like http://sia.daemon.host:9980.
      
      Note that siad must run with --disable-api-security to open API port for other hosts (not recommended).
      Keep default if Sia daemon runs on localhost.

   --api-password
      Sia Daemon API Password.
      
      Can be found in the apipassword file located in HOME/.sia/ or in the daemon directory.

   --user-agent
      Siad User Agent
      
      Sia daemon requires the 'Sia-Agent' user agent by default for security

   --encoding
      The encoding for the backend.
      
      See the [encoding section in the overview](/overview/#encoding) for more info.

   --description
      Description of the remote.


OPTIONS:
   --api-password value  Sia Daemon API Password. [$API_PASSWORD]
   --api-url value       Sia daemon API URL, like http://sia.daemon.host:9980. (default: "http://127.0.0.1:9980") [$API_URL]
   --help, -h            show help

   Advanced

   --description value  Description of the remote. [$DESCRIPTION]
   --encoding value     The encoding for the backend. (default: "Slash,Question,Hash,Percent,Del,Ctl,InvalidUtf8,Dot") [$ENCODING]
   --user-agent value   Siad User Agent (default: "Sia-Agent") [$USER_AGENT]

   Client Config

   --client-ca-cert value                           Path to CA certificate used to verify servers. To remove, use empty string.
   --client-cert value                              Path to Client SSL certificate (PEM) for mutual TLS auth. To remove, use empty string.
   --client-connect-timeout value                   HTTP Client Connect timeout (default: 1m0s)
   --client-expect-continue-timeout value           Timeout when using expect / 100-continue in HTTP (default: 1s)
   --client-header value [ --client-header value ]  Set HTTP header for all transactions (i.e. key=value). This will replace the existing header values. To remove a header, use --http-header "key="". To remove all headers, use --http-header ""
   --client-insecure-skip-verify                    Do not verify the server SSL certificate (insecure) (default: false)
   --client-key value                               Path to Client SSL private key (PEM) for mutual TLS auth. To remove, use empty string.
   --client-no-gzip                                 Don't set Accept-Encoding: gzip (default: false)
   --client-scan-concurrency value                  Max number of concurrent listing requests when scanning data source (default: 1)
   --client-timeout value                           IO idle timeout (default: 5m0s)
   --client-use-server-mod-time                     Use server modified time if possible (default: false)
   --client-user-agent value                        Set the user-agent to a specified string. To remove, use empty string. (default: rclone default)

   Retry Strategy

   --client-low-level-retries value  Maximum number of retries for low-level client errors (default: 10)
   --client-retry-backoff value      The constant delay backoff for retrying IO read errors (default: 1s)
   --client-retry-backoff-exp value  The exponential delay backoff for retrying IO read errors (default: 1.0)
   --client-retry-delay value        The initial delay before retrying IO read errors (default: 1s)
   --client-retry-max value          Max number of retries for IO read errors (default: 10)
   --client-skip-inaccessible        Skip inaccessible files when opening (default: false)

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