ebs-snapshots's Introduction

EBS-Snapshot and Rotation

Tasks

Taking EBS timely snapshots
Deleting them based on the age
Tag them appropriately
Do a dry run

SYNOPSIS

ebs_snapshot.rb -c config.yaml --dry

λ: ruby ebs_snapshot.rb --help
Usage: ebs_snapshot.rb [options]

    -c, --config CONFIG              read the options from file
        --dry                        do a dry run and dont do anything
    -h, --help                       show this message
λ:

Example config

# AWS credentials
provider: 'aws'
aws_access_key_id: '<AWS_ACCESS_KEY_ID>'
aws_secret_key: '<AWS_SECRET_KEY>'
aws_region: '<AWS_REGION>'

# specify the volumes
volumes:
  <volume_id>:
    :lifetime: "<retention_time>"
    :host: "<hostname>"
    :type: "<frequency for taking snapshots>"
# Example
  vol-ebb71aa7:
    :lifetime: 1
    :host: "blah.foo.com"
    :type: "hourly" # you can specify daily as well

Two types of lifetime daily and hourly
- if snapshot type is daily ,then lifetime is considered in days
- if snapshot type is hourly ,then lifetime is considered in hours.

Example Runs

λ: ruby ebs_snapshot.rb -c config.yaml

Creating snapshots 2014-04-20 23:27:10 +0530
Snapshot created Successfully
Checking snapshot es01p:hourly:2014-04-20:23:27
Checking snapshot es02p:daily:2014-04-20:23:27
Checking snapshot es02p:daily:2014-04-19:12:41
Checking snapshot es01p:hourly:2014-04-19:12:41
deleteing snapshot snap-1c4878c0
Deleted old snapshots

λ: ruby ebs_snapshot.rb  -c config.yaml  --dry

Below are the volumes id for snapshots
	vol-ebb71aa7,vol-826fccce

	Checking snapshot es01p:hourly:2014-04-20:23:27

	Checking snapshot es02p:daily:2014-04-20:23:27

	Checking snapshot es02p:daily:2014-04-19:12:41

Nothing to delete