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#!/bin/bash -
export AWS_ACCESS_KEY=<your aws access key>
export AWS_SECRET_KEY=<your aws secret>
date_current=`date -u +%Y-%m-%d`
aws rds describe-db-snapshots --snapshot-type "automated" --db-instance-identifier <db_instance_name> | grep `date +%Y-%m-%d` | grep rds | tr -d '",' | awk '{ print $2 }' > /tmp/sandbox-snapshot.txt
snapshot_name=`cat /tmp/<db_instance_name>-snapshot.txt`
target_snapshot_name=`cat /tmp/<db_instance_name>-snapshot.txt | sed 's/rds://'`