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+# Multi-Cloud-Mirror
+
+## Description
+
+multi-cloud-mirror provides an easy, multi-processing way of synchronizing a bucket at Amazon S3 to a container at Rackspace Cloud Files, or vice versa. It is written and maintained by Joe Masters Emison, reachable by email at joe at buildfax dot com.
+
+## Installation
+
+multi-cloud-mirror should work with all versions of python from 2.7 onward (tested with 2.7.1), and will probably work with earlier versions as well (potentially with some modifications). multi-cloud-mirror was developed with the following modules:
+
+```bash
+easy_install python-cloudfiles==1.7.9.1 easy_install boto==1.9b easy_install argparse
+```
+
+You will also need to install configuration files on the local system for multi-cloud-mirror to work:
+
+**/etc/boto.cfg** (or **~/.boto**):
+```ini
+[Credentials]
+aws_access_key_id = <aws_access_key_id>
+aws_secret_access_key = <aws_secret_access_key>
+```
+
+**/etc/cloudfiles.cfg**:
+```bash
+[Credentials]
+username = <username>
+api_key = <api_key>
+```
+
+## Running Multi-Cloud-Mirror
+
+**Options**
+
+positional arguments: "s3://bucket->cf://container" a synchronization scenario, of the form "s3://bucket->cf://container" or "cf://container->s3://bucket"
+
+optional arguments: -h, --help show this help message and exit --process NUMPROCESSES number of simultaneous file upload threads to run --maxsize MAXFILESIZE maximium file size to sync, in bytes (files larger than this size will be skipped) --from EMAILDEST email address from which to send the status email; must be specified to receive message --to EMAILSRC email address(es) (comma-separated) to which to send the status email; must be specificed to recieve message --subject EMAILSUBJ subject of the status email --tmpfile TMPFILE temporary file used for writing when sending from cf to s3 --debug DEBUG turn on debug output ```
+
+### Example
+
+```bash
+./multi-cloud-mirror.py --process 3 --from 'joe@someplace.com' --to 'joe@someplace.com,joe@someotherplace.com' 's3://myS3bucket->cf://myCFContainer' 'cf://myCFContainer->s3://myOtherS3Bucket'
+```
+
+## Using Lockrun
+
+I prefer running the Multi-Cloud-Mirror script with lockrun, which will make sure that no other instance of multi_cloud_mirror.py is running. The source code to lockrun (which is in the public domain) is available from the download page here.
+
+Example in crontab 30 */4 * * * root /usr/local/bin/lockrun --lockfile=/var/run/mcm.lockrun -- /usr/local/bin/multi-cloud-mirror.py --process 3 --from 'joe@someplace.com' --to 'joe@someplace.com,joe@someotherplace.com' 's3://myS3bucket->cf://myCFContainer' 'cf://myCFContainer->s3://myOtherS3Bucket'
+
+## Other Notes
+
+* When you run the script, you may occasionally encounter this error at the end of the script: ```<type 'exceptions.TypeError'>: 'NoneType' object is not callable```. This is a known multiprocessing bug (http://bugs.python.org/issue4106.), which has not been fixed in some versions of Python/multiprocessing library. It has no impact on the successful running of the script; it doesn't come until the script is done with what it needs to do.
+* This script is best used with RightScale and its companion Multi-Cloud Mirror ServerTemplate and RightScript. Additionally, I have made available [a very detailed howto guide](http://multi-cloud-mirror.googlecode.com/files/How_to_Set_up_a_Multi-Cloud_Mirror_Server.pdf).
+
+
+
+## Project Information
+
+Original repo: https://code.google.com/archive/p/multi-cloud-mirror/
+
+The project was created on Oct 6, 2011.
+License: Mozilla Public License 1.1
+5 stars
+svn-based source control
+Labels: 
+amazonwebservices rackspace cloudfiles s3 boto python-cloudfiles