instance-to-ebs-ami.sh

instance-to-ebs-ami.sh

#!/bin/bash
# Run this script on the instance to be bundled
# tested with Canonical Ubuntu 9.10 base ami

EBS_DEVICE=${1:-'/dev/sdh'}
IMAGE_DIR=${2:-'/mnt/tmp'}
EBS_MOUNT_POINT=${3:-'/mnt/ebs'}

mkdir -p $EBS_MOUNT_POINT
mkfs.ext3 ${EBS_DEVICE} -L uec-rootfs
mount  ${EBS_DEVICE} $EBS_MOUNT_POINT

# make a local working copy
mkdir -p $IMAGE_DIR
rsync --stats -av --exclude /root/.bash_history --exclude /home/*/.bash_history --exclude /etc/ssh/ssh_host_* --exclude /etc/ssh/moduli --exclude /etc/udev/rules.d/*persistent-net.rules --exclude /var/lib/ec2/* --exclude=/mnt/* --exclude=/proc/* --exclude=/tmp/* / $IMAGE_DIR

#ensure that ami init scripts will be run
chmod u+x $IMAGE_DIR/etc/init.d/ec2-init-user-data

#clear out log files
cd $IMAGE_DIR/var/log
for i in `ls ./**/*`; do
  echo $i && echo -n> $i
done

cd $IMAGE_DIR
tar -cSf - -C ./ . | tar xvf - -C $EBS_MOUNT_POINT
#NOTE, You could rsync / directly to EBS_MOUNT_POINT, but this tar trickery saves some space in the snapshot

umount $EBS_MOUNT_POINT