Future work and ideas

There are many different ways to take this little monkey, and I am curious what you think. Please create an Issue and let me know what you would like to see.

Some ideas I have, but won't do unless someone else has interest:

• Keep snapshots for a specific period of time (e.g. 7 days) rather than a specific number of snapshots per volume
• Make the program configurable, with proper /etc/backup-monkey.conf files and such. This would allow you to not have to specify command line options
• Dry-run mode where you can see what would happen, but no actions are taken
• Make it modular, and add hooks for pre/post volume snapshots, and pre/post snapshot removal. This would allow custom filtering
• Add custom tagging to volumes and snapshots created
• Make this into an AMI I can launch
• Make this into a CloudFormation script I can launch

Again, none of these ideas will see the light of day unless you get involved. Create an Issue, fork and submit a Pull Request, or even just message me.