AutomatiCloud

Hi there

AutomatiCloud seems to be working well for me to automate my backup snapshots, well done!

One question - when creating snapshots by tag I know we can name/tag the snapshots by Volume ID and date parts. Is it possible to tag them by Volume Name? It's probably an insignificant request from some, but it would make it quicker for me to find the correct volume in cases of needing to quickly restore a server from a snapshot.

Cheers
Josh

I will put it on the wishlist.

Stephan

Hi Stephan,

We're currently trialing AutomatiCloud and it is looking very promising.

However, as we have a large number of clients, instances and volumes we really do need the ability to set a SNAPSHOT's Name and Tags dynamically from the source object.

As an example, I'm thinking something along the lines of
Name=$SOURCE|SourceTagKey;Client=$SOURCE|SourceTagKey

The above macro would lookup the source object for the SourceTagKey and return the TagValue if found.

Do you think this is possible to incorporate into AutomatiCloud?

Thanks in advance
David

What kind of job are you using? "Create EBS snapshot" or "Create EC2 backup" ?
What value do you expect $SOURCE to have?
Can you please explain what you want to achieve by giving an example.

Stephan

Hi Stephan,

Apologies for ambiguity / lack of information.

My post relates to EBS Snapshot, using Tagging to select multiple EBS Volumes across multiple EC2 Instances.

I was intending the $SOURCE variable to be a pointer to the source EBS Volume of the snapshot. The pipe was intended as a delimiter.

In this scenario, I was trying to suggest a convention whereby the resultant snapshot could inherit it's Name and other Tags from the source object that is the subject of the snapshot.

This approach would allow us to snapshot multiple volumes across multiple instances in a single job, yet retain the ability to Name and Tag individual snapshots based on the origin.

As an example, lets assume I have an EBS Volume as follows:
Tag1

• KEY: Name
  VALUE: pit-dc12

Tag2

• KEY: Client
  VALUE: PropertyIT

Tag3

• KEY: Function
  VALUE: AD

The suggestion is that I could set the Snapshot Tag as follows Name=$SOURCE|Name;Client=$SOURCE|Client

With the desired outcome of the associated Snapshot having tags of:

• Name - pit-dc12
  Client - PropertyIT

ok, some kind of inheriting of tag values. I will put it on the wish list for the next version.

Stephan