rackspace-backup-client 0.19.0

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 <alejandro.cabrera@rackspace.com>.