consul-snapshot is a backup and restore utility for Consul (https://www.consul.io). This is slightly different than some other utilities out there as this runs as a daemon for backups and ships them to S3. Also has integrated monitoring and backup health checks.
We'd like to be able to specify an arbitrary prefix to each uploaded object.
Hostname would ordinarily be the obvious choice, but not all systems have useful names, especially AWS instances. Another alternative one might choose would be the Consul datacenter name -- after all, that's the scope of the backup.
We'd like to be able to specify an arbitrary prefix to each uploaded object.
Hostname would ordinarily be the obvious choice, but not all systems have useful names, especially AWS instances. Another alternative one might choose would be the Consul datacenter name -- after all, that's the scope of the backup.