Clone RackSpace Cloud Files Container With TurboLift

turbolift is an absolutely brilliant utility for manipulating RackSpace Cloud Files.  With turbolift you can do things like:

• Upload a directory, (recursively)
• Upload a single file
• Upload a local directory (recursively) and sync it with a Cloud Files Container
• Download a Container to a local directory
• Download changed objects from a Container to a local directory
• Compresses a Local Directory, then uploads it
• List all Containers
• List all Objects in a Container
• Delete an Object in a Container
• Delete an entire Container
• Clone one Container in one region to another Container in the same or Different Region.
• Set Custom headers on Objects/Containers

Wow!

So in this article I’m going to demonstrate how to clone a container.

Here’s the download link for turbolift:

https://github.com/cloudnull/turbolift

On CentOS 6.5 the install is easy:

Now lets assume that we have a container on RackSpace Cloud Files name “devimages” and we want to copy or clone the contents of that container to another container named “prodimages”. Here’s the turbolift command:

The [SOURCE REGION] and [DESTINATION REGION] should be one of ‘dfw’, ‘ord’, ‘iad’, ‘lon’, ‘syd’ or ‘hkg’.

turbolift is fast – it takes about 10 minutes to clone a 2GB container with 18K objects in the same region.