If you didn’t setup a role make sure your user has access to the S3 bucket. If you setup a role for CloudStack in previous steps, make sure it has access to your S3 bucket and contents. This error has to do with S3 bucket permissions. If you click on the Create Snapshots box, on the right side you can see the details, the Exception field will give you more information on why a step failed. For instance the Create Snapshots step has failed in this example below. In the visual workflow you can see the steps and status of each step. Now we can configure which RDS instances will have snapshots taken manually. Review your setup and click Create stack. At the bottom of this page you’ll need to acknowledge that the stack will be creating IAM Access Roles that it uses to operate. Whichever option you pick, you will need these permissions in order to successfully create the stack.Īt this point you’re done with setup, review your configuration. This is optional, you can add a role that will be responsible for managing resources on the stack. Once you have your configuration setup and you’ve checked it, click Next. If you don’t want snapshots to be deleted go back and set DeleteOldSnapshots to false. I am retaining my backups for an entire year, so I’ve chosen 366 days to account for a leap year. RetentionDays is the number of days that a snapshot will be retained. If you set it to ERROR, you’ll get ERROR-CRITICAL.Įnter the email address that you want notified when a snapshot is taken.
This level is a threshold, so if you set it to DEBUG, you’ll get everything from DEBUG-CRITICAL.
Set the loglevel which is the notifications you’ll get if something goes wrong. You can set DeleteOldSnapshots to true if you don’t want to delete them manually. This is dependent on the number of retention days that you specify further down.
Input the name of the bucket you created earlier in the CodeBucket box. I want my backup to run at 2am every month so I’ve input “0 2 1 * ? *”. For BackupSchedule I have chosen to run a snapshot every 30 days, which is 720 hours.