After a quick Google I came across the multi-cloud-mirror project on Google Code; a Python script that, according to its author Joe Masters Emison, “provides an easy, multi-processing way of synchronizing a bucket at Amazon S3 to a container at Rackspace Cloud Files, or vice versa”.
I found the script worked really well. Initially I planned to set it up on an EC2 machine and trigger it with a cron wrapped by Lockrun, as the author suggests. However, after using it a couple times it transpired that I’d be able to get the initial import achieved in a matter of hours, so I ran it locally on OS X, with a plan to sync on an ad-hoc basis as necessary. The only issue I found was that, due to the way the files are named, after being copied to the machine running multi-cloud-mirror, their MIME type wasn’t being inferred correctly. I corrected that, and should the fix be of use to anyone it’s available in our forked version of the project on the Box UK GitHub account.
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