Automate backups of your infrastructure dynamically via AWS EC2 Tagging and Snapshots

gem install ec2-backup

• accounts - An array of accounts you wish to configure backups for

Each account has a key for the name of the account followed by the access_key_id and secret_access_key for the account

• hourly_snapshots - The amount of hourly snapshots to retain

• daily_snapshots - The amount of daily snapshots to retain

• weekly_snapshots - The amount of weekly snapshots to retain

• monthly_snapshots - The amount of monthly snapshots to retain

• tags - The AWS EC2 Tags used for finding instances to be snapshotted.

Create a ec2-backup.yml as shown in the example file in the repository and place it in your home directory as .ec2-backup.yml

When you're ready to start backing up your instances, execute the ec2-backup command from your terminal.