Automating Amazon EBS snapshots anyone have a good script or solution for this on linux

Question

I'd expect this to be fairly routine, but cannot find a simple approach for creating an managing EBS snapshots automatically.

Was hoping there'd be a shceduler in the AWS console.. alas not yet.

Would appreciate any suggestions as to how best to do this on from Ubuntu.

Thanks

Yeah, I don't get it either. So it isn't exactly a great question, but it still has a lot of value. Throwing the baby out with the bath water, if you ask me... — Joel B, Aug 27 '14 at 17:21

score 23 · Answer 1 · answered Sep 26 '12 at 16:09

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answered Sep 26 '12 at 16:09

Nikita Leonov

score 13 · Accepted Answer · answered Sep 07 '09 at 21:46

You can easily script something to do this for you.

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.

One can always use 'sort' to ensure the sort order like: "ec2-describe-snapshots | sort -k 5" — Vikash, Jul 30 '12 at 11:53

score 1 · Answer 3 · edited Jun 07 '13 at 12:34

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I found this, hope it helps:

ec2-describe-snapshots | sort -r -k 5 | sed 1,6d | awk '{print "Deleting snapshot: " $2}'; system("ec2-delete-snapshot " $2)'

edited Jun 07 '13 at 12:34

franzlorenzon

answered Sep 25 '09 at 02:23

score 1 · Answer 4 · answered Apr 26 '11 at 00:11

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

score 0 · Answer 5 · edited Dec 23 '11 at 18:56

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A wonderful script to create an automatic snapshots.

Just copy the code and create a file, then add a cronjob whenever you want it to run.

edited Dec 23 '11 at 18:56

RSX

answered Jun 02 '11 at 08:16

Rakesh Sankar

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