Creating Snaphosts for AMIMOTO

What's AMIMOTO

AMIMOTO is a High Performance WordPress Cloud Hosting on Amazon Web Services.

Creating Snaphosts for AMIMOTO

SSH into your instance

ssh ec2-user@<ip-address>

Creating an IAM user

Create Accesss Key ID and Secret Accesss Key.

See http://aws.amazon.com/iam/.

Example policy:

{
    "Version": "2012-10-17",
    "Statement": [
        {
            "Effect": "Allow",
            "Action": [
                "ec2:Describe*",
                "ec2:CreateSnapshot",
                "ec2:DeleteSnapshot",
                "ec2:CreateTags",
                "ec2:DeleteTags"
            ],
            "Resource": "*"
        }
    ]
}

Configuring the AWS Command Line Interface

Set IAM Access Key ID and Secret Access Key

aws configure

See also http://docs.aws.amazon.com/cli/latest/userguide/cli-chap-getting-started.html.

Run the following command.

curl -L https://raw.githubusercontent.com/amimoto-ami/create-snapshots/master/create_snapshot.sh | bash

Creating Snaphosts with cron

Put the following with crontab -e.

00 04 * * * /usr/bin/curl -s https://raw.githubusercontent.com/amimoto-ami/create-snapshots/master/create_snapshot.sh | /bin/bash

Snapshot will be created everyday at 4:00 AM, and two snaphosts are kept, so old snaphosts will be removed automatically.

You can get notifications by email, see also https://github.com/amimoto-ami/set-mail-aliases.