How to Install DREBS on Alpine Linux Latest

DREBS (Disaster Recovery for Elastic Block Store) is a tool that automates backing up of an Amazon Web Services (AWS) Elastic Block Store (EBS) volume snapshot and deleting older snapshots. Here's a tutorial on how to install DREBS on Alpine Linux Latest.

Prerequisites

• An instance running Alpine Linux
• Superuser (root) privileges

Steps

1. Update your system:

apk update && apk upgrade

2. Install the required packages:

apk add python3 python3-dev py-pip gcc libffi-dev musl-dev openssl-dev make

3. Clone DREBS from GitHub:

git clone https://github.com/dojo4/drebs.git

4. Change directory to the DREBS root folder:

cd drebs

5. Install the dependencies using pip3:

pip3 install -r requirements.txt

6. Set up the configuration file by copying the sample file:

cp drebs.conf.example drebs.conf

7. Open the configuration file:

nano drebs.conf

8. Edit the configuration file with your AWS credentials and other preferences. You can find more details about the configuration file on the official DREBS documentation.

9. Save the configuration file and exit the nano editor by pressing Ctrl + X, Y, and Enter.

10. Run DREBS:

./drebs.py

You have successfully installed DREBS on your Alpine Linux instance and are ready to automate your EBS snapshots.

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