ec2-backup
Easy backup your EC2 instances.
ec2-backup
creates snapshots of all attached volumes of an EC2 instance
and automatically purges snapshots that not correspond to:
- the last 10 days,
- the last 10 mondays,
- the first day of the last 10 months.
Important: in order to properly select purgeable snapshots,
ec2-backup
should be run daily.
Installation
$ sudo npm -g install coffee-script
$ npm install ec2-backup
Configuration
Put your AWS credentials in the config.json
file.
Usage
$ ec2-backup
To automatically launch ec2-backup
every night, just add a cron job
like this:
0 4 * * * /path/to/ec2-backup.coffee >> /var/log/ec2-backup.log 2>&1
License
MIT