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Hardcoded AMI/snapshot IDs break this for non-Fashiolista users :-) https://github.com/tschellenbach/Snaptastic/blob/master/snaptastic/cleaner.py#L182

mikery

It appears there is sometimes a delay which causes the EC2 API to believe the instance is not yet in the 'running' state. The breaks snaptastic, leading to the error:...

mikery

Skeleton directories

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Placeholder for a feature I need to add. When a snapshot is not found (i.e. first time an instance is booted), a local directory on an already-mounted file system should...

mikery

Backup sets

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when running mount-snapshots it seems that the api calls to retrieve the right snapshot are not made in parallel

tschellenbach

Enable 'delete volume on termination'

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http://boto.cloudhackers.com/en/latest/ref/ec2.html#boto.ec2.connection.EC2Connection.modify_instance_attribute Should be an optional setting in the volumes dict, delete_on_termination, True by default.

mikery

snaptastic tries to mount not ready snapshots

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boto.exception.EC2ResponseError: EC2ResponseError: 400 Bad Request IncorrectStateSnapshot 'snap-' is not 'completed'.06c63459-99d3-4a0b-ace8-a20acfdeeb2c

tbarbugli

Docs on supported filesystems See https://github.com/tschellenbach/Snaptastic/blob/master/snaptastic/ebs_volume.py

tschellenbach

List that we need xfsprogs or fsfreeze to function

tschellenbach

Increase default timeout from 45 seconds

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45 seconds is not long enough for EC2, sometimes it takes a lot longer.

mikery

Using master-level keys for this in suboptimal. Better to create a specific IAM role for this purpose, which will require these permissions: ``` { "Statement": [ { "Sid": "Stmt1349790264045", "Action":...

mikery