Backup process

The standard automatic backup process is performed nightly at 23:00 UTC, on those accounts that are enabled and do not have backup disabled.

Each item that is backed up is a record saved in the database, which can be consulted from the section Backup LOGs.

The procedure is as follows:

Get the list of accounts susceptible to backup
For each account, the services that can be backed up are obtained based on their provider; For now, the services implemented are as follows:
- AWS / EC2
For each service, if applicable, the regions to be processed are obtained
For each region, the list of candidate machines to be backed up is obtained, according to the following criteria:
- For AWS/EC2, Beanstalk instances are ignored (elasticbeanstalk:environment-id) and autoscaling (aws:autoscaling:groupName)
- You get the "Backup" tag; if this is a number and greater than 0 the object is added to the list of objects to back up
- Otherwise, the object is ignored
Finally, the objects obtained in the previous step are backed up. In the case of AWS / EC2, the tags of the source instance are copied to the backup made, in addition to adding a "BackupSourceEc2Id" tag, indicating the EC2 instance ID.

It is also possible to create custom backups, with a specific schedule for certain objects from the scheduler.