EBS Backup and Rotation Script

ebs_backup

#!/bin/bash
export EC2_PRIVATE_KEY=~/.ec2/pk.pem
export EC2_CERT=~/.ec2/cert.pem
ec2-create-snapshot vol-ab0921c0 -d "Intellinar Server ROOT - $(date +'%d-%m-%Y')"
ec2-create-snapshot vol-110d257a -d "Intellinar Data - $(date +'%d-%m-%Y')"
ec2-create-snapshot vol-8bbb93e0 -d "Database Server aka RDS - $(date +'%d-%m-%Y')"
 
Purge EBS Snapshots
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export EC2_PRIVATE_KEY=~/.ec2/pk.pem
export EC2_CERT=~/.ec2/cert.pem
ec2-describe-snapshots | sort -r -k 5 | sed 1,7d | awk '{print "Deleting snapshot: " $2}; system("ec2-delete-snapshot " $2)'



''''
{
  "Statement": [
    {
      "Sid": "Stmt1311252614644",
      "Action": [
        "ec2:CreateSnapshot",
        "ec2:CreateTags",
        "ec2:CreateVolume",
        "ec2:DeleteSnapshot",
        "ec2:DeleteTags",
        "ec2:DescribeInstances",
        "ec2:DescribeSnapshotAttribute",
        "ec2:DescribeSnapshots",
        "ec2:DescribeTags",
        "ec2:DescribeVolumes"
      ],
      "Effect": "Allow",
      "Resource": "*"
    }
  ]
}
''''