Automating Amazon EBS snapshots anyone have a good script or solution for this on linux

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Dom picture Dom · Aug 24, 2009 · Viewed 32.1k times · Source

I'd expect this to be fairly routine, but cannot find a simple approach for creating an managing EBS snapshots automatically.

Was hoping there'd be a shceduler in the AWS console.. alas not yet.

Would appreciate any suggestions as to how best to do this on from Ubuntu.

Thanks

Answer

Nikita Leonov picture Nikita Leonov · Sep 26, 2012

Take a look at AWS missing tools and especially to https://github.com/colinbjohnson/aws-missing-tools/tree/master/ec2-automate-backup This does what you need.

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