delete local snapshot / retain copy in other region

[jeremydunn]

Hi,

Nice product !

I want to keep my snapshots *only* in another region. How can I do this?

My job runs daily, and retains three copies (delete after 3 days). So now I get 3 copies in the same region as my instance, and 3 copies in the other region. This makes my S3 costs double.

Is there any way to delete the local snapshot immediately after copying to another region?

[admin]

This is exactly the behavior that is implemented: Local snapshots are deleted following the rules you define. Snapshots in other regions are never deleted.

Stephan

[jeremydunn]

This is exactly the behavior that is implemented: Local snapshots are deleted following the rules you define. Snapshots in other regions are never deleted.

Stephan

well, that is also not what I want. I want to
* delete the local snapshots as soon as they are copied to the other region
* delete the other-region snapshots after a specified time period.

The purpose is to have a disaster-recovery solution in a different EC2 region.

I guess Automaticloud cannot do what I want....too bad.

[admin]

I will put it on the wishlist.

Stephan

[admin]

Version 3.3.819 is out now and supports a "copy only" mode that repects the cleanup rules in remote regions.

Stephan

[jeremydunn]

Version 3.3.819 is out now and supports a "copy only" mode that repects the cleanup rules in remote regions.

Stephan

Thank you for this improvement! I would like to try it before purchasing, but my 15 day free trial has expired, and this feature is only available with the paid version. Is there any way to give me another 10-15 days trial, please ?

[admin]

I have sent you a 15 days trial extension.

Stephan

[jeremydunn]

the improvement in 3.3.819 does not appear to be working properly

I have 1 EC2 instance in US-West-1 region.

There are 2 Automaticloud jobs:
a. saves snapshot locally (US-West) and retains for 3 days. This is working properly
b. saves "copy only" snapshot to EU-West-1 (Ireland) and retains for 1 day. This is not entirely working:
* it is taking the snapshot daily
* it is keeping 1 copy in US-West region
* it is copying to EU-West region
* it is NOT purging EU-West region. Copies there are accumulating, which is not the desired outcome.

see attached screenshots of my setups and snapshots

[jeremydunn]

also I'm getting a failure message each day, like this:

Exception: The snapshot 'snap-0cefd03da0713eddd' does not exist.
Job Type: Create EC2 Snapshot
Job Name: DhammaDev3-snapshot-EU
Job ID: i-09a659c8795062825-201701191604356488
Host: WIN-7PRK1VS63B5
Timestamp: 1/22/2017 3:15:05 AM

[admin]

fixed in Version 3.3.820

Stephan