DOSnapshot

By far my favorite tool. First commit on GitHub was in July of 2014, so it’s relatively new and seems to work very well.

I love that it starts droplets back up when it’s done taking the snapshot.

This is the only tool I use to make snapshots.

Hi,

I love this tool! Great work, but im struggling getting it to work with crontab -e

So if I run: do_snapshot --only DROPLETID --keep 10 --clean --trace --digital-ocean-access-token KEYHERE

then everything works fine, however if I try running it in crontab -e: 0 3 * * 2,3,7 do_snapshot --only DROPLETID --keep 10 --clean --trace --digital-ocean-access-token KEYHERE

Then it executes in CRON (according to syslog) but it doesnt show any errors other than :no mta installed discarding output. So I really dont see why it doesnt work.

I tried including the method to send output to email, but wasnt able to get that work either (Got some errors with google smtp).

In addition I have “disabled” root and are using SSH key instead. But when editing crontab I use sudo crontab -e

Are you able to understand what I am doing wrong?

Thanks

Now that snapshots can be created without shutting down a droplet, what changes need to be made to DOsnapshot?

Now it works on API V2 Too.

Great tool. Thanks!

Hi, After creating snapshot with doSnapshot, how can I automatically transfer the snapshot to a different region then remove it from the source region?

This makes disaster recovery much better since the snapshots are kept in a different region than the droplet.

Would you consider adding that feature? :)

Good morning, I have used your tool for more than a year so far with only occasional hiccups. Thank you so much for that. However starting a week ago I am having problems. I am using the following command:

do_snapshot --only $HSET_IN $SRITONI_WS1 --keep 2 -c -v -p 2 --stop-by-power

And I get the following error:

Shutting down droplet. Droplet id: xxxxxxx is Failed to Power Off. DoSnapshot::DropletShutdownError

Actually the droplets were powered off but the script is unable to synchronize with this apparently?

Any help would be appreciated.

Also, I would like to donate and so can you please setup a paypal?

Thanks,

Madhu

Most useful and elegant tool that I can find to do this! Bravo and many thanks. To properly work I am having to add option -d 30 or else the script comes out claiming that droplet not powered off!

ok, which version of do_snapshot? and which version of ruby you have, or installation type?

Hello, can you post your full log? To get it just run do_snapshot with -v option.