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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