go-create-image-backup

backup tool with AWS Amazon machine image(AMI) written by Go.

Features

• Create backup for Amazon EC2 instance by Amazon machine image
• Manage backup generations per logical group(service tag based).
• Notify error by email
  • You should be careful when send email from Amazon EC2 instance, See also AWS Documentation

Usages

Usage of go-create-image-backup:
  -backup-generation int
    	number of backup generation (default 10)
  -g int
    	number of backup generation(Short) (default 10)
  -instance-id string
    	instance id
  -i string
    	instance id(Short)
  -region string
    	region
  -r string
    	region(Short)
  -service-tag string
    	value of Service tag
  -s string
    	value of Service tag(Short)
  -mail-from string
        from-address of email notification
  -f string
        from-address of email notification(Short)
  -mail-to string
        to-address of email notification
  -t string
        to-address of email notification(Short)
  -mail-server
      mail server address (default localhost)
  -m string
      mail server address (default localhost)(Short)
  -port int
      mail server's port (default 25)
  -p int
      mail server's port (default 25)(Short)      
  -version
    	print version information
  -v	print version information(Short)

Example

Create new machine image ami-1234567890abcdef0 and deregister machine image ami-1234567890abcdef1, ami-1234567890abcdef2

$ go-create-image-backup -service-tag daily -backup-generation 3
create image: ami-1234567890abcdef0
deregister images: ami-1234567890abcdef1

Author

Takatada Yoshima

License

Apache License 2.0