Not maintained. Use y13i/amirotate instead.

Amirotate

Back up EC2 instances by Snapshot/AMI. Capable of managing backup retention period.

Installation

Add this line to your application's Gemfile:

gem 'amirotate'

And then execute:

$ bundle

Or install it yourself as:

$ gem install amirotate

Usage

amirotate help shows subcommands and options.

1. Set the tag on EC2 instances

Amirotate use tags attached to EC2 instance to determine instances that should be backed-up.

You can set the tag by amirotate setup.

2. Create image

amirotate preserve to find all your EC2 instances tagged with amirotate:<profile name>:retention_period and CreateImage them.

3. Delete image/snapshot

amirotate invalidate to find all your outdated AMIs. Deregister them, then delete all snapshots associated with the AMI..

Development

After checking out the repo, run bin/setup to install dependencies. Then, run bin/console for an interactive prompt that will allow you to experiment. Run bundle exec amirotate to use the code located in this directory, ignoring other installed copies of this gem.

To install this gem onto your local machine, run bundle exec rake install. To release a new version, update the version number in version.rb, and then run bundle exec rake release to create a git tag for the version, push git commits and tags, and push the .gem file to rubygems.org.

TODO

• Write spec.
• etc.

Contributing

1. Fork it ( https://github.com/y13i/amirotate/fork )
2. Create your feature branch (git checkout -b my-new-feature)
3. Commit your changes (git commit -am 'Add some feature')
4. Push to the branch (git push origin my-new-feature)
5. Create a new Pull Request