Automating Amazon EBS snapshots anyone have a good script or solution for this on linux [closed]
Take a look at AWS missing tools and especially to https://github.com/colinbjohnson/aws-missing-tools/tree/master/ec2-automate-backup This does what you need.
You can easily script something to do this for you.
- setup the EC2 commandline API tools
- set
EC2_CERTandEC2_PRIVATE_KEYin order to be able to use the API tools - parse the results of
ec2-describe-snapshots - delete the appropriate snapshots
The results look something like:
SNAPSHOT snap-xxxxxxxx vol-xxxxxxxx completed 2009-08-26T07:39:33+0000 100%
You can then do some parsing of the dates and sorting and start removing the older snapshots.
NOTE: I don't know if we can trust the sort order but I've never seen it sort any other way than oldest to newest.
To delete a snapshot, use ec2-delete-snapshot snap-xxxxxxxx.
The rest I leave to you as a simple Bash script that you can call daily or however often you need from cron.
Shameless plug, but - you can give Ebs2s3 a go:https://github.com/ajmfulcher/ebs2s3
Rails app to automate snapshot creation and prune old snapshots. Introduction and some screenshots here:http://ajmfulcher.blogspot.com/2011/04/ebs2s3-automated-backup-for-amazon-ebs.html