#!/usr/bin/env python
#Import the CloudFiles Python API ensure this is located in your lib directory for Python.
import cloudfiles
import time
import datetime
import commands

#DB info
MYSQL_DB=’XX’
MYSQL_USER=’YY’
MYSQL_PASS=’****’

#output info
OUTPUT_PATH=’/a/’
NOW = datetime.datetime.now().strftime(“%Y-%m-%d_%H:%M:%S”)
FILE= MYSQL_DB+’.'+ NOW + ‘.sql’

#Lets Connect to CloudFiles. and get the container
print “Connecting to cloud files”
conn = cloudfiles.get_connection(‘——’,'***********************************************’)
cont = conn.get_container(‘mysql-backup’)

#Dump DB
print “Dumping DB file”
commands.getstatusoutput(‘mysqldump -u—— -p************** –databases ta > ‘ + OUTPUT_PATH + FILE)

#upload file
print “Uploading file to cloud files”
my_db_object = cont.create_object(FILE)
my_db_object.load_from_filename(OUTPUT_PATH + FILE)

#deleting dump temporery file
#commands.getstatusoutput(‘rm -f ‘ + OUTPUT_PATH + FILE)

print “Backup process done successfully”

1. In case you use Centos/RedHat -> get a python-cloudfiles via yum.

yum install python-cloudfiles

2. Bit better solution for London datacentre users: instead of modifying the consts.py just add:

export CLOUDFILES_AUTHURL=”https://lon.auth.api.rackspacecloud.com/v1.0″

Below CLOUDFILES_APIKEY or similar.

Change to this => default_authurl = ‘https://lon.auth.api.rackspacecloud.com/v1.0‘

Duplicity splits the backups into 25MB chunks to make it manageable.

I found this tutorial => http://www.syamsul.net/2010/04/18/backing-up-your-debianubuntu-vps-to-rackspace-cloud-files/

Debian Lenny and Ubuntu < 10.04 come with older versions of Duplicity. Additional repositories need to be added to install a newer version of duplicity.

Follow the instructions and all will be good!

I have almost got this working on Debian Lenny. I installed python 1.7.2 (latest version). instead of your snippet of code I had to use

wget http://github.com/rackspace/python-cloudfiles/tarball/1.7.2
tar -xzf 1.7.2
cd rackspace-python-cloudfiles-ed7ae1e
python setup.py install

The duplicity version for Debian is 0.4.11

It didn’t work straight of, so I used “bash -x /root/backup-mysql.sh” to debug the shell script.

It thrown up this error: -

+ duplicity /backup/mysql cf+http://mysql-backup
Unknown scheme ‘cf+http’

I can’t seem to find a work around for this. I believe the issue is with the version of Duplicity.

Any suggestions would be greatly appreciated.