Lambda Lightsail Backup
A Serverless function (runnable on AWS Lambda) to manage incremental snapshots of AWS Lightsail instances.
Inspired by/based on vidanov/lambda-nodejs-lightsail-backup & weareadjacent/lambda-lightsail-backup.
Setup
Step 1. Setup AWS Credentials and Serverless
See Serverless Getting Started with
Step 2. Clone this repo
Step 3. Configure the backups
By default, this will backup all lightsail instances in the current region, nightly. It will retain daily backups for 14 dyas, weekly backsups for 12 weeks and monthly backups for 12 months. These can be configured in serverless.yml with the environment variables.
environment:
# BACKUP_INSTANCES: 'instance1,instance2'
# BACKUP_DAYS: 7
# BACKUP_WEEKS: 12
# BACKUP_MONTHS: 12
Make sure you setup your AWS region in serverless.yml
You can adjust when the backups will be executed in serverless.yml by changing the cron schedule
- schedule: cron(0 3 * * ? *)
Step 4. npm install
Step 5. Test locally
You can test this locally by using $ serverless invoke local -f backups
Step 6. Deploy
$ serverless deploy