aws-ec2-ebs-rotational-snapshot

👍 Bash script for Automatic EBS Snapshots and Delete obsolete Backups.

To use this you need to install some dependencies on your system.

• apt-get install jq

• pip install awscli

• You need to install dateUtils (http://www.fresse.org/dateutils/)

Now, Configure Aws command line utility

• aws configure

• Enter aws Access key and Hit enter
• Now Enter Aws Secret Access Key and Hit Enter
• Enter Region name and hit enter
• For output format, remain blank and Hit Enter beacuse by default it uses JSON

How to Use

• To backup Ec2, run command

  ./ec2_backup_script.sh backup

• To delete old Backup, run command below- to use delete command we need two arguments first is delete argument to tell script we need to delete snapshots and second is x (int value) to delete snapshots older than x days

  ./ec2_backup_script.sh delete 5 will delete all snapshots older than 5 days

  
  

Setup Cron

You can also setup this script as a cron for daily backup and delete obsolete backups which are older than a week.

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