Question

I have to migrate off Rackspace to Amazon. I have a big rails app that has saved lots of files on Cloudfiles and I ll have to export them to S3.
Are you aware of any script or process to do that migration?

Thank you

Answer 1

Should be fairly straightforward to do something like this using the respective gems and a rake task:

# connect to cloudfiles & aws
cf_container.objects.each do |object_name|
  cf_object = cf_container.object object_name
  AWS::S3::S3Object.store(object_name, cf_object.data, 'name_of_s3_bucket')
end

The biggest downside to something like this is that you are passing every file through your your server/local machine. S3 allows you to make a bucket writeable from another source, but the Rackspace CloudFiles API doesn’t offer any kind of “post to” service (understandably so).