Questions[rackspace-cloud-sites](server)

I need help creating a backup script for Rackspace Cloud sites.

The sites need daily backups for both the web site & their mysql databases (some sites have as many as 4 databases), the backups then need to be ftp'd off-site.

It appears that i can only achieve this via cron jobs. Rackspace show an example backup script but only show how to push files to cloudfile storage (see below). What is the FTP syntax to push the created file to a remote server?

EDIT got it working full script is:

webroot is /mnt/stor1-wc1-dfw1/381384/****.*******.com

#!/bin/sh


webroot="YOUR WEBROOT"
db_host="YOUR DB HOST"  
db_user="YOUR DB USERNAME"
db_password="YOUR DB PASSWORD"
db_name="YOUR DB NAME"

#Set the date and name for the backup files
date=`date '+%F-%H-%M'`
backupname="backup.$date.tar.gz"

#Dump the mysql database

mysqldump -h $db_host -u $db_user --password="$db_password" $db_name >      $webroot/db_backup.sql

#Backup Site
tar -czpvf $webroot/sitebackup.tar.gz $webroot/web/content/

#Compress DB and Site backup into one file
tar --exclude 'sitebackup' --remove-files -czpvf $webroot/$backupname    $webroot/sitebackup.tar.gz $webroot/db_backup.sql

#Upload your files via FTP
ftp -n $ftphost <<END
user $user $password
bin
lcd $webroot
put $backupname
quit
END

#After your backup has been uploaded, remove the tar ball from the filesystem.
rm $webroot/$backupname

I was wondering if anyone knows of a way to deploy to Rackspace Cloud Sites via Git-push?

I contacted the Rackspace support and all they can tell me is that I might be able to as long as I don't need root access. Is that something that's possible?

I can't seem to find anything on Google, but I thought I would at least double check, as i'm only familiar with pushing to GitHub & Heroku.

I have sshfs setup to connect to another system (Rackspace Cloud Sites) that I don't have ssh access to (but for some reason I can use sshfs? Go figure). I'm attempting to rsync files from the sshfs mount to my local disk. It's several thousand small files (1k-200k). Sometimes, the rsync will just pause and hang for a while on files that are very small. It will pause on, say a 10k text file for like 5 minutes, then it will continue.

Is there anyplace I can look on my machine to determine why rsync would be hanging like this? Or is there a good chance it's simply a problem on the other end that I can't do anything about?

My rsync options are simply -avrP.