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 with it.
Usage
By default it will bind to port 2021 and localhost to be able to be launched by user which can be changed via the command line option -p. The username password are your API Username and key.
Manual Install
FTP-Cloudfs require the pyftpdlib which can be installed from here :
http://code.google.com/p/pyftpdlib/
and python-cloudfiles :
http://github.com/rackspace/python-cloudfiles
you can then checkout FTP-Cloudfs from here :
http://github.com/chmouel/ftp-cloudfs
The way to install python package is pretty simple, simply do a python
setup.py install after uncompressing the tarball downloaded.
Automatic Install:
You can generate a debian package directly from the source if you have
dpkg-buildpackage installed on your system. It will give you a nice
initscripts as well to start automatically the ftp cloudfs process.
Support
Albeit I am working for Rackspace Cloud this is not supported by
Rackspace but please feel free to send a comment here if you have any
problems.
from http://blog.chmouel.com/2009/10/29/ftp-server-for-cloud-files/
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Sometime ago I wrote a FTP proxy to RackSpace Cloud Files which expose Rackspace Cloud Files as a FTP server acting as a proxy.
Thanks to the OpenSource community a user on github took it and add support OpenStack and all the latest features available in Cloud Files.
It is now pretty robust and works pretty well via nautilus even with the pseudo hierarchical folder feature. The fun part here is that it allow you to effectively have a Cloud Drive where you can easily store your files/backup from your Linux desktop via nautilus built-in ftp support.
from http://blog.chmouel.com/2011/04/06/uploading-to-rackspace-cloud-files-via-ftp/
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 with it.
Usage
By default it will bind to port 2021 and localhost to be able to be launched by user which can be changed via the command line option -p. The username password are your API Username and key.
Manual Install
FTP-Cloudfs require the pyftpdlib which can be installed from here :
http://code.google.com/p/pyftpdlib/
and python-cloudfiles :
http://github.com/rackspace/python-cloudfiles
you can then checkout FTP-Cloudfs from here :
http://github.com/chmouel/ftp-cloudfs
The way to install python package is pretty simple, simply do a python
setup.py install after uncompressing the tarball downloaded.
Automatic Install:
You can generate a debian package directly from the source if you have
dpkg-buildpackage installed on your system. It will give you a nice
initscripts as well to start automatically the ftp cloudfs process.
Support
Albeit I am working for Rackspace Cloud this is not supported by
Rackspace but please feel free to send a comment here if you have any
problems.
from http://blog.chmouel.com/2009/10/29/ftp-server-for-cloud-files/
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Uploading to Rackspace Cloud Files via FTP
Sometime ago I wrote a FTP proxy to RackSpace Cloud Files which expose Rackspace Cloud Files as a FTP server acting as a proxy.
Thanks to the OpenSource community a user on github took it and add support OpenStack and all the latest features available in Cloud Files.
It is now pretty robust and works pretty well via nautilus even with the pseudo hierarchical folder feature. The fun part here is that it allow you to effectively have a Cloud Drive where you can easily store your files/backup from your Linux desktop via nautilus built-in ftp support.
from http://blog.chmouel.com/2011/04/06/uploading-to-rackspace-cloud-files-via-ftp/
