sync_to_snapshot(1)

💖 NAME 💖

sync_to_snapshot — rsync your lil files up to Amazon EC2, bestie 🌸

✨ SYNOPSIS ✨

sync_to_snapshot Rsync the indicated files and directories to Amazon EC2
and store in a named EBS snapshot. Snapshot will be incrementally
updated if it already exists. The Version tag will be updated.

So like — you point it at some files and dirs, it rsyncs them over to Amazon EC2 and tucks them into a named EBS snapshot. If that snapshot already exists? It just gets incrementally updated 🔄 (no drama, no starting over, we love efficiency). And the Version tag gets updated too, periodt.

Oh and also? It'll hit up the default EC2 endpoint URL — unless the environment variable EC2_URL is set, in which case it uses that instead. iykyk 💅

🎀 OPTIONS 🎀

• snapshot — the snapshot name. Required, so don't forget it, bestie 😭 (it's giving "I literally cannot run without this")
• access_key — your EC2 access key 🔑
• secret_key — your EC2 secret key 🤫 (yes it's secret, no we don't talk about it in the group chat)
• image — the Server AMI ID. Defaults to ami-ccf405a5, which is Ubuntu Maverick 32bit ✨
• type — the Server type. Defaults to m1.small 🧚
• username — the username for logging into the instance (that's "ubuntu") 🫶
• filesystem — the type of filesystem to create: bfs,cramfs,ext*,minix,ntfs,vfat,msdos. ✨

Okay so real talk — anything with a /sbin/mkfs.* executable on the server side will work. And it defaults to ext4 💜

👑 AUTHOR 👑

Man page: Olivier Sallou <osallou@debian.org> 🌈

and that's the whole vibe, bestie — sync_to_snapshot version 1.0, dated September 7, 2012 🦋 slay, go snapshot something iconic ✨💅