Glacier Cookbook

Install glacier-cmd utility and configure backups to glacier using glacier-cmd, tar and cron. It contains a LWRP for describing glacier backups.

Requirements

Tested only on Ubuntu 12.04, but should works on Debian too. Only works with Express 42 crontab cookbook. You should remember to delete root's crontab entries when delete glacier backups in chef.

LWRP

glacier_static

glacier_static LWRP creates tasks for backuping static content. All cron tasks are belongs to root user.

Actions

Action	Description
backup	Default action. Backups data.

Attributes

Attribute	Description	Default
name	Name attribute. Name of the backup (required)
path	Path to backup (required)
time	Describe time of backup, same format as for crontab (Hash)	{ :minute => "0", :hour => "2", :day => "*", :month => "*", :weekday => "*" }
tempdir	Temporary backup dir	/home/backups/
aws_key	AWS key (required)
aws_secret	AWS secret(required)
vault	Glacier vault, should exists (required)
region	AWS region	us-west-2
full	Incremental or full backup (boolean)	false

Examples

glacier_static "backup-daily" do
  path "/home/vagrant/"
  aws_key 'my aws key'
  aws_secret 'my aws secret'
  vault 'backup'
  time(:minute => "15", :hour => "4", :weekday => "1-6")
end

glacier_static "backup-weekly" do
  path "/home/vagrant/"
  aws_key 'my aws key'
  aws_secret 'my aws secret'
  vault 'backup'
  time(:minute => "15", :hour => "4", :weekday => "7")
  full true
end

Contributing

1. Fork the repository on Github
2. Create a named feature branch (like add_component_x)
3. Write you change
4. Write tests for your change (if applicable)
5. Run the tests, ensuring they all pass
6. Submit a Pull Request using Github

License and Authors

Author:: Ivan Evtuhovich ivan@express42.com

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