Installing DREBS on NixOS Latest

DREBS stands for Disaster Recovery Elastic Block Store, which is a system for creating backups of Amazon Elastic Block Store (EBS) volumes in AWS. In this tutorial, we will guide you on how to install DREBS on NixOS Latest.

Step 1: Install Git

DREBS is hosted on Github, so you need to install Git first. To install Git on NixOS Latest, run the following command:

sudo nix-env -i git

Enter your password when prompted.

Step 2: Clone DREBS repository

Next, clone the DREBS repository from Github using the following command:

git clone https://github.com/dojo4/drebs.git

This command will create a directory named drebs in your current working directory.

Step 3: Install Dependencies

DREBS requires the following dependencies to be installed:

• Python 2.7
• pip
• AWS CLI (command-line interface)

To install these dependencies, run the following command:

sudo nix-env -i python2 pip awscli

Step 4: Create Virtual Environment

Create a virtual environment for DREBS using the following command:

cd drebs
python2 -m virtualenv env

This command will create a new directory named env in drebs directory.

Activate the virtual environment using the following command:

source env/bin/activate

Step 5: Install DREBS

Install DREBS using pip by running the following command:

pip install -e .

This will install DREBS in the virtual environment.

Step 6: Configure AWS CLI

Configure AWS CLI with your AWS access key and secret access key using the following command:

aws configure

Enter your AWS access key, secret access key, default region, and output format when prompted.

Step 7: Verify Installation

Verify that DREBS is installed correctly using the following command:

drebs --help

This command should display a list of available DREBS commands.

Congratulations! You have successfully installed DREBS on NixOS Latest.