AWS Nightly Snapshot

take-site-snapshot.sh

#!/bin/bash
#
# We use this code from cron to automate nightly volume snapshots.
# In our case we have two volumes.
#
#
export EC2_KEYPAIR=MY-KEY-PAIR
export EC2_URL=https://ec2.ap-southeast-2.amazonaws.com
export AWS_ACCESS_KEY=accesskey
export AWS_SECRET_KEY=secretkey
export JAVA_HOME=/usr/lib/jvm/java-6-openjdk/

sync

DATE=$(date +"%Y%m%d%H%M")
VOLUME1=vol-87f0a4d0
VOLUME2=vol-acf0a4fb
DESCRIPTION1="ServerName-ROOT-Automated-Snapshot-"$DATE
DESCRIPTION2="ServerName-SITE-Automated-Snapshot-"$DATE
REGION=ap-southeast-2

function create_snapshot() {
  local volume=$1
  local description=$2
  echo "Creating snapshot $volume: $description"
  echo -e "\tec2-create-snapshot $volume --region $region_name -d $description"
  ec2-create-snapshot $volume --region $REGION -d $description

  echo "Snapshot initiated, monitor progress with:"
  echo -e "\tec2-describe-snapshots --filter tag-value=$description"
  ec2-describe-snapshots --filter tag-value=$description
}

echo
create_snapshot $VOLUME1 $DESCRIPTION1
echo
create_snapshot $VOLUME2 $DESCRIPTION2
echo