EBSnap

A tool to automate and curate EBS snapshots across one or more AWS accounts

What is this?

A tool to help automate EBS snapshots for EC2 instances across your AWS accounts. Based on settings in config.yaml, it will snapshot EBS volumes on hosts based on their 'Tag:Name'. With the use of 'retention' period, it can curate/remove old snapshots if they have reached their experation period ( as defined in config.yaml, per host ).

Fabric commands/definitions

1. make_snapshots() - Creates snapshots across each instance defined in config.yaml
2. list_snapshots() - Lists all the snapshots associated with EBS volumes with instances defined in config.yaml
3. curate_snapshots() - Deletes all EBS snapshots associated with instances in config.yaml that are older than the 'retention' period.
4. ebsnap() - runs both make_snapshots and curate_snapshots()

Set up

1. Git clone this repo to a directory of your choice
2. Using config.yaml.example, create a config.yaml and pouplate it with your relevant AWS info and instances you wish to run EBS snapshots on
3. create the virtualenv virtualenv env && source env/bin/activate && pip install -r requirements.txt
4. run it fab ebsnap

Protip: Set this up on a cron job so it can run every day at midnight or time of your choosing.

• * 0 * * * cd /opt/tools/EBSnap; env/bin/fab ebsnap

Requirements

• python 2.7
• virutalenv
• pip
• proper AWS IAM account with grants required for EC2 and EBS