From ee7890926d65730a93bba5d383ff47f3b9bb7557 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Colin Johnson <colinbjohnson@gmail.com>
Date: Sun, 27 Jan 2013 15:51:25 +0000
Subject: [PATCH] updating documentation for auto tags feature.

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 ec2-automate-backup/README.md              |   6 ++++--
 ec2-automate-backup/ec2-automate-backup.sh |   6 +++---
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diff --git a/ec2-automate-backup/README.md b/ec2-automate-backup/README.md
index c985a1c..fcae2b8 100644
--- a/ec2-automate-backup/README.md
+++ b/ec2-automate-backup/README.md
@@ -37,10 +37,12 @@ ec2-automate-backup requires one of the following two parameters be provided:
 * To perform daily backup using cron and to load environment configuration with a "cron-primer" file:
  - `0 0 * * 0 ec2-user /home/ec2-user/ec2-automate-backup.sh -c /home/ec2-user/cron-primer.sh -s tag -t "Backup=True"`
 
+`-a` - the -a flag will tag snapshots with additional data so that snapshots can be more easily located. Currently the two auto tags created are Volume="ebs_volume" and Created="date"
+
 # Additional Information:
-the file "ec2ab - IAM User Required Permissions.json" contains the IAM permissions required to run ec2-cost-calculate.rb in with the least permissions required as of 2012-11-21.
+the file "ec2ab - IAM User Required Permissions.json" contains the IAM permissions required to run ec2-automate-backup.sh in with the least permissions required as of 2012-11-21.
 
 - Author: Colin Johnson / colin@cloudavail.com
-- Date: 2012-12-09
+- Date: 2013-01-27
 - Version 0.1
 - License Type: GNU GENERAL PUBLIC LICENSE, Version 3
diff --git a/ec2-automate-backup/ec2-automate-backup.sh b/ec2-automate-backup/ec2-automate-backup.sh
index 833bba1..7ac4299 100755
--- a/ec2-automate-backup/ec2-automate-backup.sh
+++ b/ec2-automate-backup/ec2-automate-backup.sh
@@ -1,6 +1,6 @@
 #!/bin/bash -
 # Author: Colin Johnson / colin@cloudavail.com
-# Date: 2012-09-24
+# Date: 2013-01-27
 # Version 0.1
 # License Type: GNU GENERAL PUBLIC LICENSE, Version 3
 #
@@ -62,12 +62,12 @@ create_EBS_Snapshot_Tags()
 		snapshot_tags="$snapshot_tags --tag PurgeAfter=$purge_after_date --tag PurgeAllow=true"
 	fi
 
+	#if $auto_tag is true, then append Volume=$ebs_selected and Created=$date_current to the variable $snapshot_tags
 	if $auto_tag
 		then
 		snapshot_tags="$snapshot_tags --tag Volume=${ebs_selected} --tag Created=$date_current"
 	fi
 
-
 	#if $snapshot_tags is not zero length then set the tag on the snapshot using ec2-create-tags
 	if [[ -n $snapshot_tags ]]
 		then echo "Tagging Snapshot $ec2_snapshot_resource_id with the following Tags:"
@@ -156,7 +156,7 @@ date_binary=""
 
 #sets the "Name" tag set for a snapshot to false - using "Name" requires that ec2-create-tags be called in addition to ec2-create-snapshot
 name_tag_create=false
-#sets the auto_tagging feature to false - requires same as Name tag, auto sets tags like Volume with volume_id and Created with timestamp for easy searching
+#sets the auto_tagging feature to false - auto_tag creates tags on snapshots - by default each snapshot is tagged with volume_id and current_data timestamp
 auto_tag=false
 #sets the Purge Snapshot feature to false - this feature will eventually allow the removal of snapshots that have a "PurgeAfter" tag that is earlier than current date
 purge_snapshots=false