Backing up your Debian/Ubuntu VPS to Rackspace Cloud Files
There are quite a number of tutorials available on backing up to Amazon S3, which is popular due to its redundancy and low cost (15cents per gigabyte). I prefer Rackspace Cloud Files though due to its lower upload fees (8cents vs 10cents per gigabyte of bandwidth). We will use duplicity to create the backups because it is bandwidth efficient and also allows us to encrypt our backups. We will also be setting up the cloudcity script to make it easier…