Rackspace Cloud Backup on Ubuntu

Rackspace recently released their Cloud Backup to their normal user base.

This service will store your files on Racksapce’s cloud file service.  You will need to install drivecloud app on your server before running your backups.

To install the software, run:

sh -c 'wget -q "http://agentrepo.drivesrvr.com/debian/agentrepo.key" -O- | apt-key add -'
sh -c 'echo "deb [arch=amd64] http://agentrepo.drivesrvr.com/debian/ serveragent main" > /etc/apt/sources.list.d/driveclient.list'
apt-get update; apt-get install driveclient

You will need your username and API key to complete this step. To locate your API key, click the arrow next to your user name (at the top right of the Control Panel) and select API Keys. On the “API Access” page, click the Show Key button. Then, copy it to your clipboard.

Tip: This step will ask you to confirm that you want to overwrite your config file. Answer yes.

driveclient --configure

Start the Agent:

service driveclient start
update-rc.d driveclient defaults

After you have started the agent, go back to the Rackspace Backup Admin page to finish configuring your new setup.