python-cloudfiles deprecated

[Jonathan Krauss]

Rackspace has deprecated python-cloudfiles in favor of their pyrax library, which consolidates all Rackspace Cloud API functionality into a single library. Attached is a simple backend for pyrax, ported over from cloudfiles. I tested it with Duplicity 0.6.21 on both Arch Linux and FreeBSD 8.3.0.

[Jesus Monzon (gsusmonzon)]

Hello Jonathan, all,
I can confirm that your script works with Ubuntu 12.04 as well.
However with the newer versions of pyrax, you must include

pyrax.set_setting("identity_type", "rackspace")

before starting the authentication.

Thanks

[edso (ed.so)]

hi Jonathan,

would you be willing to add the missing documentation to the manpage (sections REQUIREMENTS, URL FORMAT, NOTES ON CLOUDFILES) as well? you would have to hack latest "bin/duplicity.1" and check your changes with "man -l bin/duplicity.1"

could you also check the change by Jesus is needed and include it properly, if necessary?

i assume the backend was tested (with which dupilcity version?) or is running somewhere on your site?

can you upload all changes into a branch for Ken the maintainer to evaluate and commit eventually? if not, i could do that. i wonder we should integrate a --backend-cf switch, similar to how --backend-ssh is handling the legacy ssh backend.

..thx ede/duply.net

[Jonathan Krauss (jkrauss)]

I added Jesus' change and updated the man page. Pyrax backend is now in a new branch ~jkrauss/duplicity/pyrax.

[Jonathan Krauss (jkrauss)]

Forgot to answer your question on testing... I've tested the backend with Duplicity 0.6.22-1 on Arch Linux in a test environment for both backup and restore. I had it running "in production" on my file server for a while but I migrated that to a FreeNAS recently and haven't gotten Duplicity re-installed there yet.

[Chris Snell (chris-snell)]

I've tested this backend on Mac OS X and it seems to work well. When will this be merged and packaged with a release? There are a few of us eagerly awaiting this. :)

[Kenneth Loafman (kenneth-loafman)]

Will get it in the 0.6.23 version, to be released soon.

On Fri, Nov 22, 2013 at 6:33 PM, Chris Snell <email address hidden>wrote:

> I've tested this backend on Mac OS X and it seems to work well. When
> will this be merged and packaged with a release? There are a few of us
> eagerly awaiting this. :)
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> Bug description:
> Rackspace has deprecated python-cloudfiles in favor of their pyrax
> library, which consolidates all Rackspace Cloud API functionality into
> a single library. Attached is a simple backend for pyrax, ported over
> from cloudfiles. I tested it with Duplicity 0.6.21 on both Arch Linux
> and FreeBSD 8.3.0.
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[Yajo (yajo)]

It seems now pyrax is also deprecated also, so although the issue is still valid, the fix isn't.

Neither python-cloudfiles nor pyrax are available for Python 3.

[Kenneth Loafman (kenneth-loafman)]

You can use "pip3 install pyrax", however python-cloudfiles has not been ported yet.