Automated EBS Snapshots helps you ensure that you have up to date snapshots of your EBS volumes.

All you need to do to get started is documented below.

pip install automated-ebs-snapshots

Automated EBS snapshots can be configured either via command line options or via command line options.

You can use the following command line options to authenticate to AWS. :

AWS configuration options:
  --access-key-id ACCESS_KEY_ID
                        AWS access key
  --secret-access-key SECRET_ACCESS_KEY
                        AWS secret access key
  --region REGION       AWS region

Create a configuration file anywhere on you file system. :

[general]
access-key-id: xxxx
secret-access-key: xxxxxxxx
region: eu-west-1

Then use the --config command line option to point at your configuration file.

In order to enable automatic snapshots, you need to start watching the volume. The following command will add vol-13245678 to the watchlist with snapshots created daily. :

automated-ebs-snapshots --config ~/auto-ebs-snapshots.conf --watch vol-12345678 --interval daily

List the currently watched volumes and their backup interval :

automated-ebs-snapshots --config ~/automated-ebs-snapshots.conf --list

To stop creating automated backups for a volume, run this: :

automated-ebs-snapshots --config ~/automated-ebs-snapshots.conf --unwatch vol-12345678

Now, to start taking snapshots you will need to have Automated EBS Snapshots running. You can either run automated-ebs-snapshots manually (i.e. scheduled in crontab or such) or have it running in daemon mode.

Running automated-ebs-snapshots manually: :

automated-ebs-snapshots --config ~/automated-ebs-snapshots.conf --run

It will check if there are any volumes with no or too old snapshots. New snapshots will be created if needed.

Start the daemon by running :

automated-ebs-snapshots --config ~/automated-ebs-snapshots.conf --deamon start

Stop the daemon with :

automated-ebs-snapshots --config ~/automated-ebs-snapshots.conf --deamon stop

You can also restart it using :

automated-ebs-snapshots --config ~/automated-ebs-snapshots.conf --deamon restart

This project is maintained by Sebastian Dahlgren and it is supported by Skymill Solutions.

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