Ebs2s3 provides a simple way to schedule regular snapshots of EBS volumes to S3.

First, grab the application:

git clone git://github.com/ajmfulcher/ebs2s3.git ebs2s3

Next, install required gems, and set up the database:

cd ebs2s3
bundle install
rake db:migrate

Update config/appconfig.yml with your Amazon EC2 account details, and you’re ready to go, using something like:

script/rails s -d

Navigate to 127.0.0.1:3000 and you’ll be prompted to create your first admin user. You’ll be able to add others later on.

Once you log in, you’ll see an (empty) listing of snapshot jobs. Let’s fix this.

Click on the “new job” link, and you’ll be taken through to a listing of your EBS volumes. To schedule a new job, click “Create Snapshot Job”. Most of the job creation fields are pretty self-explanatory. “Copies” specifies the maximum number of snapshpots to be retained; once this limit is reached, the oldest snapshots created by the scheduler are deleted. Don’t worry if you’ve created snapshots manually: Ebs2s3 won’t touch these.

To change the password of the current user, click on the user’s name in the top-right corner of the web interface. You can also create new users from this screen.

Plenty! But if you come across one, feel free to fix and open a pull request…

Copyright 2011, Andrew Fulcher

Ebs2s3 is free software: you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by the Free Software Foundation, either version 3 of the License, or (at your option) any later version.

Ebs2s3 is distributed in the hope that it will be useful, but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the GNU General Public License for more details.

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