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tuscanicz/php-aws-snapshots
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A simple library that manages AWS backups from PHP.

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Create automatic AWS EC2 snapshots with limits on the total number of snapshots created and the interval which the snapshots are created.

For example, you could create a snapshot every day and only keep the last 7 for a running week's worth of snapshots. Or create a snapshot once a week and only keep the last 4 so you would have a running month's worth of snapshots.

Requirements
------------

[](#requirements)

- [AWS CLI](http://aws.amazon.com/cli/)
- AWS IAM snapshot permissions ([example policy](#example-iam-policy))
- PHP 5.5+
- Access to crontab (or some other job scheduler)

AWS CLI installation
--------------------

[](#aws-cli-installation)

```
sudo apt-get install python-pip php5-cli
sudo pip install awscli

// set credentials (Access Key ID, Secret Access Key) and region - ie: us-east-1, us-west-1
aws configure

```

Setup
-----

[](#setup)

This assumes you've already installed and configured [AWS CLI](http://aws.amazon.com/cli/) and added the correct [IAM permissions](#example-iam-policy) within your AWS console.

### 1. Create a PHP script to use the library

[](#1-create-a-php-script-to-use-the-library)

Use [composer](https://getcomposer.org) to autoload all the necessary classes.

Setup AWS CLI installation directory (using the value from `which aws`) and [configure your volumes](#volume-configuration).

Finally wire the services and test run your cli task. You can also change a description prefix that is used by this library to pick snapshots from the server. This is done via the second argument of `Snapshots::run()`

```