Sometime ago I made a shell script to upload directly to Rackspace CF using the script capability of nautilus. While working well it did not offer the progress bar and was hard to update. I have made now as a proper python nautilus plugin which offer these features.
The code is available here :
http://github.com/chmouel/nautilus-cloud-files-plugin
The old version [...]
I have just committed an experiment of a FTP Server answering to Cloud Files. It act completely transparently to be able to use any FTP Client to connect to cloud-files.
There is probably a couple of bugs there but the basis of it seems to be working, please let me know if you find any problems [...]
Last week I have posted an article explaining how to connect to Rackspace Cloud Files via Rackspace ServiceNET but I actually got it wrong as pointed by my great colleague exlt so I had to take it down until figured out how to fix it.
I have add that feature properly to the PHP [...]
If you are a Rackspace customer and you are are planning to use Rackspace Cloud Files via it’s internal network (ServiceNet) so you don’t get billed for the bandwidth going over Cloud Files this is how you can do.
The first thing is to make sure with your support team if your servers are connected to ServiceNet and if you [...]
Since working a lot with Rackspace Cloud Files I have put some quick
scripts using the python-cloudfiles API to do some ls rm and cp of containers or objects..
It’s really a collection of quickly written stuff put in the same file
but at least if not useful for you it would give you an idea how the
python-cloudfiles [...]
It seems that there is no much documentation about how to do rsync like backup with duplicty so here it is :
Install python-cloudfiles from here http://github.com/rackspace/python-cloudfiles
Install duplicity, its available directly from Debian or alike distros (ie: ubuntu) or you can do that from source from the homepage.
Get your API Key from https://manage.rackspacecloud.com/ and use a script [...]
After seeing this script http://overhrd.com/?p=106 which allow to upload files with the file manager (finder) of MacosX to Rackspace Cloud Files, I have made a nautilus script that doe the same for us Gnome/Unix users.
Available here :
http://github.com/chmouel/nautilus-rackspace-cloud-file/tree/master
