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Windows batch script for creating daily EC2 snapshots for a volume and deleting old ones.
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windows_ec2_snapshot.bat
set AWS_EC2_COMMAND=aws ec2 --dryrun
set AWS_HOME=.
set AWS_VOLUME=vol-12345678
set AWS_SNAPSHOT_KEEP=10
set VOL_DESC=Daily Snapshot
:: Create snapshot for this volume
CMD /C %AWS_EC2_COMMAND% create-snapshot %AWS_VOLUME% -d "%VOL_DESC%"
:: Find old snapshots for this volume, sort them by date desc
%AWS_EC2_COMMAND% describe-snapshots --filters Name="volume-id",Values="%AWS_VOLUME%" Name="status",Values="completed"|find /I "%VOL_DESC%"|sort /R /+49>%AWS_HOME%\snapshots.txt
:: Loop over old snapshots, skip the first 10, delete the rest
for /f "tokens=2 skip=%AWS_SNAPSHOT_KEEP%" %%s in (%AWS_HOME%\snapshots.txt) do %AWS_EC2_COMMAND% delete-snapshot %%s
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Updated to newest AWS-CLI syntax. Added a couple user variables to statements.

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