profitbricks-snapshot

profitbricks-snapshot is a tool to create daily block based images of virtual machines in the Profitbricks private cloud. It also deletes snapshots that are older than a defined retention time in days.

Installation

1. Get profitbricks-snapshot:

   git clone https://github.com/seibert-media/profitbricks-snapshot.git

2. Install python requirements:

   pip install -r requirements.txt

3. Create and adjust your settings:

   cp settings.cfg.example settings.cfg

4. Execute profitbricks-snapshot every day via cron:

   crontab -e

   0 3 * * * cd /path/to/profitbricks-snapshot && python profitbricks-snapshot.py

Settings

Example settings.cfg:

[credentials]
username: user@domain.com
password: secret

[snapshots]
datacenter_id: abc12345a-12ab-3a4b-1a23-1ab2cd345e67
snapshot_prefix: AUTOSNAP
retention_time: 7
sleep_seconds: 60

• credentials: Username and password of your Profitbricks account.

• datacenter_id: All volumes in this datacenter will be snapshotted.

• snapshot_prefix: Prefix string of snapshot names. Name of snapshots from example: "AUTOSNAP-YYYMMDD-VOLUMENAME"

• retention_time: Retention time in days. Older snapshots will be deleted.

• sleep_seconds: Number of seconds to wait between the creation of snapshots.

Usage

python profitbricks-snapshot.py

License

This project is licensed under the terms of the MIT license.