Automatic backup management of AWS EC2 EBS volumes
Project description
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.
Installation
pip install automated-ebs-snapshots
Authentication configuration
Automated EBS snapshots can be configured either via command line options or via command line options.
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
Configuration file
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.
Watching and unwatching volumes
Start watching a volume
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 watched volumes
List the currently watched volumes and their backup interval
automated-ebs-snapshots --config ~/automated-ebs-snapshots.conf --list
Stop watching a volume
To stop creating automated backups for a volume, run this:
automated-ebs-snapshots --config ~/automated-ebs-snapshots.conf --unwatch vol-12345678
Creating snapshots
Now, to start taking snapshots you will need to have Automated EBS Snapshots running.
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.
There is no daemon mode currently, so you will need to run something like this.
nohup while true ; do automated-ebs-snapshots --config ~/automated-ebs-snapshots.conf --run >> /var/log/automated-ebs-snapshots.log 2>&1 ; sleep 600 ; done
License
APACHE LICENSE 2.0 Copyright 2014 Skymill Solutions
Licensed under the Apache License, Version 2.0 (the “License”); you may not use this file except in compliance with the License. You may obtain a copy of the License at
Unless required by applicable law or agreed to in writing, software distributed under the License is distributed on an “AS IS” BASIS, WITHOUT WARRANTIES OR CONDITIONS OF ANY KIND, either express or implied. See the License for the specific language governing permissions and limitations under the License.
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