https://github.com/hiroakis/ebs-snapshot

Create EBS snapshot and delete old snapshot on AWS
https://github.com/hiroakis/ebs-snapshot

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Create EBS snapshot and delete old snapshot on AWS

• Host: GitHub
• URL: https://github.com/hiroakis/ebs-snapshot
• Owner: hiroakis
• Created: 2015-09-02T06:57:13.000Z (about 9 years ago)
• Default Branch: master
• Last Pushed: 2015-09-02T14:04:31.000Z (about 9 years ago)
• Last Synced: 2023-03-22T15:58:02.697Z (over 1 year ago)
• Language: Python
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• Watchers: 2
• Forks: 1
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  • Readme: README.md

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# ebs-snapshot

Making EBS snapshot script written in Python.

## Installation

Just download `ebs_snapshot.py` on your AWS instance and set its permission to 755.

### AmazonLinux

On Amazonlinux, modules are installed by default.

If you don't use system Python, install `boto` and `requests` on your Python environment.

### Ubuntu

Use apt-get(modules will be installed on system Python) or install `boto` and `requests` by yourself.

```

apt-get update

apt-get install awscli python-pip python-boto

```

## AWS Credentials

Set AWS credential by environment variable or create `~/.boto`.

* environment variable

```

export AWS_ACCESS_KEY_ID=xxxxx

export AWS_SECRET_ACCESS_KEY=xxxxx

```

* ~/.boto

```

[Credentials]

aws_access_key_id=xxxxx

aws_secret_access_key=xxxxx

```

Note: the credential need some IAM policies. The following is example.

* IAM policy example

```

{

    "Version": "2012-10-17",

    "Statement": [

        {

            "Effect": "Allow",

            "Action": [

                "ec2:Describe*",

                "ec2:CreateSnapshot",

                "ec2:DeleteSnapshot"

            ],

            "Resource": "*"

        }

    ]

}

```

## Usage

Execute `ebs_snapshot.py` on the instance which you would like to create EBS snapshot.

* options

  - -h: show helps

  - -n: The number of snapshot generations. default: 3

  - -l: The log file path. default: /tmp/ebs_snapshot.log

## License

MIT