Whilst it still serves my need I get in trouble if or when Rackspace changes their Cloud Files API. Aside from backing up files it can also restore them. When skipping content checksums it’s fairly fast to only process the changes. The thing I like about it is that it syncs your local folder with a Cloud Files container. I use it to backup my photo’s and movies I’ve shot over the last decade or so. I’ve been using Rackspace Cloud Files Sync, a little piece of software I’ve written myself, for some years now.

I highly recommend using Cyberduck if you were using Rackspace Cloud Files Sync before. With it you can browse your stored files, add or delete them and even synchronize folders just like you could do with my app. Meet Cyberduck! It describes itself as Libre FTP, SFTP, WebDAV, S3 & OpenStack Swift browser for Mac and Windows. It also supports Rackspace Cloud Files (which is now based on OpenStack as well if I’m not mistaken). But as I never tested it with thousands of files it did not seem to work and the application simply crashed a few times as well. My application is supposed to be able to sync an empty folder to a filled container effectively cleaning it up. An added benefit of using OneDrive is that you can choose not to download certain (big) files or folders.Īfter moving my stuff over to OneDrive I was in need of deleting the stored files in Rackspace Cloud Files. Which is already cheaper as what I was paying with Rackspace Cloud Files. With OneDrive I get 100GB for € 1.99 a month or 200GB for € 3.99. I also use Dropbox but for my disk usage I found it to be a bit too expensive. Recently I moved my pictures and videos over to Microsoft OneDrive.

Not too long ago I talked about an alternative for my Rackspace Cloud Files Sync application.

Cyberduck synchronize between clouds