Editing Snapshot automation for droplets and volumes in DigitalOcean Cloud platform

[[category:BLS INTERNATIONAL]]
[[category:Cloud Platforms]]


== Digtalocean Automate Snapshot for Droplet and Volumes ==

Reference '''https://pypi.org/project/goutte/'''

Issue - For Python 3.7 on Centos 6 

Reference - https://benad.me/blog/2018/07/17/python-3.7-on-centos-6/


'''Genrate Api KEY for digital Ocean'''  via 

 https://www.easydeploy.cloud/blog/automate-droplet-snapshot-digitalocean/?unapproved=39&moderation-hash=6864fe13b1a4810007aa7067bbdca7db#comment-39

only first 2 Step to be followed 

'''Finally on Live Server''' 
For example , at '''mail.blsinternational.net 
'''
 goutte /usr/local/etc/goutte.toml 36c095a48c01428e14b1a38c3ddce5cb57d65df42cb1d727e59a22735b1a6236 --only snapshot

And file '''/usr/local/etc/goutte.toml'''

 retention = 2     # Number of backups to keep per droplet/volume
 [droplets]
 names = [          # Array of droplets you want to snapshot
  'mail.blsinternational.net',
 ]
 [volumes]
 names = [          # Array of volumes you want to snapshot
  'bls-zimbra-store-01',
 ]

And '''Crontab Entry''' is 

 0 17 * * * goutte /usr/local/etc/goutte.toml 36c095a48c01428e14b1a38c3ddce5cb57d65df42cb1d727e59a22735b1a6236 --only snapshot > /dev/null




'''Deletion of Snapshots automatically keeping last 2 old Snapshots''' 

Please install doctl via https://github.com/digitalocean/doctl

Create  the following script 

[root@mail ~]# cat /root/scripts/delete-old-snapshot.sh 
 #!/bin/bash
 doctl compute snapshot list | grep goutte | head -n2 | awk '{ print $1 }' | \
 while read i
 do
  echo "$i"
  doctl compute snapshot delete -f $i
 done 

As all the snapshot of BLS international starts with goutte , we have used the logic of grepping this key word 

In Crontab keep the time as 1 hour after the creation script has executed 

 0 18 * * * /root/scripts/delete-old-snapshot.sh >/dev/null 2>&1 

Keep checking if it working fine periodically . 
Snapshots are costly so you should not have snapshots for which customer is not paying .