I have just started experimenting with the Turnkey hub and I have a question about what's the best way to quickly restore an instance.

I only want to run my instances while I'm using them so I'm interested in figuring out the fastest way to create new instances and restore  backups to them.

I know that I can do this manually.

Part 1

Launch a new server

Do work…

Perform a backup

apt-get update
apt-get install tklbam
tklbam-init <Key>
tklbam-backup

Terminate my server

<Time passes>

Part 2

Launch a new server like this one

SSH into it

Perform restore by running these commands

apt-get update
apt-get install tklbam
tklbam-init <Key>
tklbam-restore <backup id>

What I'd like to do is some how automate Part 2 so that by simply selecting "launch a new server like this one" I don't even have to log into it to perform the restore.

I've noticed a few things like mounting an EBS volume, TKLPatch, configuration hook scripts, and user-data scripts, and I'm guessing the answer will have to do with one or more of these. But I could use a little help connecting the dots. What I've come up with so far is putting the commands from Part 2 into a script on an EBS volume that I can then execute with an SSH from my desktop. It's not a bad solution but I'm wondering if there is a better alternative.