Cloudzy

• Open the Cloudzy Jobs page
• Click: Add a new job

Jobs have several areas of configuration: 

Job Details

• Name: Enter a descriptive Job Name. This will used for email notifications and in the activity log.
• Snapshot Name: Cloudzy provides some built-in variables you can use to tag your snapshots:
  • %{blockDevicePath}
  • %{instanceID}
  • %{instanceID}
  • %{Instance Name}
  • %{volumeId}
  • %{blockDevicePath}
• Region: Choose the AWS region where your job will run
• Credentials: choose your credentials from the dropdown

  • *No Credentials? You'll need to setup Account Credentials before you can create a Job. Head over to the Settings page, or review this help article. 

• Backup: The backup type, choose Ec2 Instance or RDS

• Schedule:  Choose the backup schedule that works for you. This is the schedule and frequency when the Job will run. 
• Retention: This is the number of backups that will be kept. The oldest backups will be removed once this number is reached. \\

Tags

• Tags Option:  "Backup all" will take a snapshot backup of all EC2 instances in your account that. This includes all running  and stopped instances. 
• Filter Tags:You can optionally choose to backup only instances with specific tags. The tag Value field also supports wildcard and regex values. Example:  Tag name:  Service    Value=apache*
  • Note: The "Tag name" field does not support wildcards. 

• Excluded Tags: Optionally exclude certain EC2 instances by tag values. The tag Value field supports wildcard and regex values. Example:  Tag name:  Environment    Value=test*
  • Note: The "Tag name" field does not support wildcards. 

• Snapshot Tags: Optionally choose to include tags from original EC2 instance, or add additional tags such as Instance ID to the snapshots.

Alerts

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Email Alerts: Choose to send email alerts on when jobs run. We highly recommend using the "Email on Failure" alert to get notified immediately of any problems with your backup jobs. It's recommended to use an email distribution list for these alerts, instead of a personal mailbox so that the appropriate team can be notified. 

Webhook Alerts:  This will send Slack compatible webhook alerts to the endpoint provided. These are currently not customizable, and is compatible with Slack and other simple web services. 

• HTTP Method: POST
  Content-Type: application/json
  Example request body: { "text": "[cloudzy.io] Job: Name completed 2 snapshots successfully. See the job log at: https://cloudzy.io/dashboard/jobs" }

The final Review screen will allow you to review the settings and optionally enable or disable the job. 

If you need any help with setup please send us a ticket using the helpdesk form.