A monkey that makes sure you have a backup of your EBS volumes in case something goes wrong.
It is designed specifically for Amazon Web Services (AWS), and uses Python and Boto.
This script is designed to be run on a schedule, probably by CRON.
usage: backup-monkey [-h] [--region REGION]
[--max-snapshots-per-volume SNAPSHOTS] [--snapshot-only]
[--remove-only] [--verbose] [--version]
[--tags TAGS [TAGS ...]] [--reverse-tags]
[--label LABEL]
[--cross-account-number CROSS_ACCOUNT_NUMBER]
[--cross-account-role CROSS_ACCOUNT_ROLE]
Loops through all EBS volumes, and snapshots them, then loops through all
snapshots, and removes the oldest ones.
optional arguments:
-h, --help show this help message and exit
--region REGION the region to loop through and snapshot (default is
current region of EC2 instance this is running on).
E.g. us-east-1
--max-snapshots-per-volume SNAPSHOTS
the maximum number of snapshots to keep per EBS
volume. The oldest snapshots will be deleted. Default:
3
--snapshot-only Only snapshot EBS volumes, do not remove old snapshots
--remove-only Only remove old snapshots, do not create new snapshots
--verbose, -v enable verbose output (-vvv for more)
--version display version number and exit
--tags TAGS [TAGS ...]
Only snapshot instances that match passed in tags.
E.g. --tag Name:foo will snapshot all instances with a
tag `Name` and value is `foo`
--reverse-tags Do a reverse match on the passed in tags. E.g. --tag
Name:foo --reverse-tags will snapshot all instances
that do not have a `Name` tag with the value `foo`
--label LABEL
Only snapshot instances that match passed in label
are created or deleted. Default: None. Selected all
snapshot. You have the posibility of create a different
strategies for daily, weekly and monthly for example.
Label daily won't deleted label weekly. E.g.
backup-monkey --max-snapshots-per-volume 6 --label daily
backup-monkey --max-snapshots-per-volume 4 --label weekly
You save 6 + 4 snapshots max. instead 4 or 6
--cross-account-number CROSS_ACCOUNT_NUMBER
Do a cross-account snapshot (this is the account
number to do snapshots on). NOTE: This requires that
you pass in the --cross-account-role parameter. E.g.
--cross-account-number 111111111111 --cross-account-
role Snapshot
--cross-account-role CROSS_ACCOUNT_ROLE
The name of the role that backup-monkey will assume
when doing a cross-account snapshot. E.g. --cross-
account-role Snapshot
Create snapshots of all EBS volumes in us-east-1:
backup-monkey --region us-east-1
Delete snapshots of EBS volumes in us-west-1 where a volume has more than 5 snapshots:
backup-monkey --region us-west-1 --max-snapshots-per-volume 5 --remove-only
You can install Backup Monkey using the usual PyPI channels. Example:
sudo pip install backup_monkey
You can find the package details here: https://pypi.python.org/pypi/backup_monkey
Alternatively, if you prefer to install from source:
git clone [email protected]:Answers4AWS/backup-monkey.git cd backup-monkey python setup.py install
This project uses Boto to
call the AWS APIs. You can pass your AWS credentials to Boto can by using a
.boto file, IAM Roles or environment variables. Full information can be
found here:
http://boto.readthedocs.org/en/latest/boto_config_tut.html
python -m unittest -v tests.unit.test_exceptions python -m unittest -v tests.unit.test_tags
Make no mistake. This script WILL delete snapshots. This script WILL create snapshots, which can cost you money. There really are no warranties or guarantees. For costs, refer to http://aws.amazon.com/ec2/pricing/
The Python source code for Backup Monkey is available on GitHub:
https://github.com/Answers4AWS/backup-monkey
This code was written by Peter Sankauskas, founder of Answers for AWS - a company focused on helping businesses learn how to use AWS, without doing it the hard way. If you are looking for help with AWS, please contact us.
Copyright 2013 Answers for AWS LLC
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
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