rackspace-backup-client 0.18.0

A Python client for the Rackspace Cloud Backup API.

Version:

0.18.0

Presentations:

Introduction

Welcome to the Python bindings to the Rackspace Cloud Backup API. These bindings will help you make the most of the Cloud Backup system and integrate it into your workflows.

Table of Contents

• Features

• Install

• Contributing

Features

• Python 2.7 and 3.3+ supported

• Easy to install (pip)

• Easy to test (nose + tox)

• Designed to be easy to use with ipython

  • Tab-completion and smart introspection

  • verbs map to object functions: backup.start()

  • nouns map to object properties: backup.report

I’ll let the code speak for ease of use:

from rcbu.client.client import Client
from rcbu.client.connection import Connection
import rcbu.client.backup_configuration as backup_config

conn = Connection('username', apikey='981263y1hq82yh8y9q38q2')
client = Client(conn)
myconf = backup_config.from_file('backup_config.json', conn)

# Upload a new backup configuration to the Backup API
myconf.create()

backup = client.create_backup(myconf)
status = backup.start()

# block here until the backup completes
# polls once a minute by default
backup.wait_for_completion(poll_interval=.5)

# easy reporting and checking for success
report = backup.report
report.raise_if_not_ok()

Check out the backup_config.json

Install

Make sure you have libgmp, libssl, and the Python development headers installed:

sudo apt-get install libgmp-dev libssl-dev python-dev
sudo apt-get install libgmp-dev libssl-dev python3-dev  # for Py3

On Windows, make sure that the proper Visual Studio path is configured:

SET VS90COMNTOOLS=%VS100COMNTOOLS%  # MSVS 2010
SET VS90COMNTOOLS=%VS110COMNTOOLS%  # MSVS 2012

pip install git+https://github.com/rackerlabs/python-cloudbackup-sdk

Contributing

Some simple guidelines:

• Unit tests for new features

• Keep the code clean - flake8

• Be wary of warnings and errors - pylint

• >95% code coverage - keep it strong

• Be Pythonic

For more details, checkout the Contributing guide.

If you have any questions, please check in with Alejandro Cabrera <[e-mail]>.