[jamescun]

I signed up for hubiC a while back with the intention of using their touted OpenStack compatibility with Duplicity for encrypted backups (using the Swift backend) - only to discover they have placed their own authentication mechanism on top of OpenStack, breaking compatibility with all OpenStack clients. The only solutions available seem to be running a proxy between your client and hubiC.

[Dosenpfand]

It seems that since duplicity v0.7.01 [1] (2015/01/11) it has native support for hubic [2]. Will definitely check it out.

[1] http://www.nongnu.org/duplicity/CHANGELOG

[2] http://duplicity.nongnu.org/duplicity.1.html#sect17

[hackerboos]

OVH like to dick around with the kernels on their VPS and dedicated servers. You can work around it but I really wish they didn't do this.

[blfr]

On dedicated servers at least you don't need to work around it. You can install vanilla version of your chosen distribution straight from their panel.

[rakoo]

> The only solutions available seem to be running a proxy between your client and hubiC.

Actually hubiC doesn't want you to use its API unless you're a developer, which means you must pass the steps necessary to "create an application", after which you will be able to use all API calls. It's burdensome but doable.

[tiernano]

I asked for a key, and was given one instantly... used it with hubic to openstack gateway[1] and works very well

https://github.com/oderwat/hubic2swiftgate

[rakoo]

Of course it's easy for you because you understand what a client id and a client secret are, and you know why they differ from your username and password. I'm talking about the average Joe that barely knows what a URL is, a redirect URL even less. You know what openstack means, and you know what a gateway is and can run one.

hubiC makes it astonishingly hard for someone to create an app where a user just puts your account username and password and starts using it. If I was negative I'd say it's a scheme to prevent people actually filling their whole quota, because the only simple way they can do it is through the web ui or through the official syncing app.

[multipass]

Since it took a while to find out how to set this up using duplicity to backup the home directory under Ubuntu Linux, here is how I got this to work. Maybe this can be of help for somebody: https://gist.github.com/molobrakos/ff1620ce6031c99f120b

[zeendo]

Thanks for the heads up. I was about to sign up for the same reason.

Have you found a better alternative for duplicity backups?