Hi, I proposed a WIP PR, 629 a month ago that introduces a new driver type, for backup.
https://github.com/apache/libcloud/pull/629 Most of the cloud providers we support have a backup service in some form or another. Some offer snapshots and recovery of raw disk volumes (EC2, GCE), some offer full backup APIs and services (Azure, Dimension Data) and some offer both. For example GCE offers snapshots for compute and backup and recovery for it's database service. You will find the docs to this here: http://libcloud-fork.readthedocs.org/en/libcloud-769_backup_driver/backup/index.html I would like to get this new driver type into the next release so that the community can start to develop out the drivers for each of the major clouds. One of the goals for this new driver type is that people can use it to backup instances or data across clouds. For example backing up a blob in Azure to EC2 glacier. If anyone has any thoughts, or questions on this please let me know. Anthony
