Category Archives: Rackspace

Upload to Rackspace Cloud Files in a shell script

I don’t really use much the GUI and always the command line so I don’t really use the Cloud File plugin I created for nautilus. So here is a shell script to upload to Rackspace Cloud Files and give you … Continue reading

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New GNOME plugin for uploading to Rackspace Cloud Files and APT/PPA repo for CF tools.

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 … Continue reading

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FTP server for Cloud Files

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 … Continue reading

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Accessing to Rackspace Cloud Files via servicenet (update)

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 … Continue reading

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How to connect to Rackspace Cloud Files via ServiceNET

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 … Continue reading

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Rackspace Cloud Files helper scripts

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 … Continue reading

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rsync like backup to Rackspace Cloud File with duplicity

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 … Continue reading

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Upload to Rackspace Cloud files from GNOME nautilus

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

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