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Looks very interesting and I can possibly use this at my work.

I will take a closer look but what was not immediately apparent was: what kind of backups are we talking about here? mysqldump or volume snapshots ? What about incremental backups ?

Redis snapshots support would be awesome as well.

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It supports MongoDB, MySQL and PostgreSQL at the moment. It's really easy to add extra engines, you can even write your own custom ones and include them. But it's mainly dealing with full dumps, rather than volume snapshots or incrementals. That said, there's nothing to stop an "engine" being written that could create an EC2 machine using Packer and attaching an EBS volume and then testing that.

I have plans to support things like RDS as well in the longer term.

I've got some redis instances here that I can test restoring from, so could look at adding that.

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