I need to get the backing up of my web server sorted out. The plan at the moment is:
* Periodically start an amazon ec2 ubuntu instance.
* Once the instance has started, copy files to the storage.
* On completion stop the instance.
It's more complicated as I am trying to save money by not having the instance running all the time. Also as the ip address will be different every time the instance is started, the script will have to adjust accordingly.
Install boto 2.0 from gz file downloaded from google code boto site:
http://code.google.com/p/boto/downloads/list
install python-duplicity from ubuntu repositories.
set environment variables for aws ec2:
export AWS_ACCESS_KEY_ID=[YOUR KEY ID]
export AWS_SECRET_ACCESS_KEY=[YOUR SECRET KEY]
import boto import boto.ec2 import time regions = boto.ec2.regions() eu = regions[0] #eu-west-1 conn_eu = eu.connect() rs = conn_eu.get_all_instances(instance_ids='<your instance id here>') reservation = rs[0] instance = reservation.instances[0] #start an existing instance instance.start() print instance.state while (instance.state != 'running'): time.sleep(5) instance.update() print 'pending ...' print instance.ip_address
jonathan@V1104-J:~/Dropbox/amazonws$ duplicity --no-encryption --scp-command 'scp -o IdentityFile=/home/jonathan/Dropbox/amazonws/jonathlt.pem' --sftp-command 'sftp -o IdentityFile=/home/jonathan/Dropbox/amazonws/jonathlt.pem' /home/jonathan/Documents scp://ubuntu@xx.xx.xx.xx//home/ubuntu/backups/Documents
