Introduction

INTUZ is presenting Automated Scripts for AWS EBS Snapshots and Patch Update Management. These scripts will help you for creating snapshot, backup, update & Patch upgrade by scheduling cron jobs. Please follow the below steps to run the script.

Features

• Cron Job for AWS EBS Automatic backup.

• Set the retention period for the AWS Snapshots and update.

• Cron for automatic Update and Upgrade AWS AMIs and dependencies.

Description

Snapshot Script (snapshotscript.sh)

This bash script is used for Automatic EBS Snapshots and Cleanup on Amazon Web Services (AWS).It determines the instance ID of the EC2 server on which the script runs. Also, it will take snapshots for each attached volume. With the help of this script, backup and retention period are set.

Retention period Script(rp.sh)

This script is used for AWS Snapshot Management. We have created it to let you set the retention period for the snapshots. This script will create a cron for automatic backup at 2:00 AM UTC. Snapshot script and backup script are linked to this script. You can enable it by logging into the terminal or shell with the Instance login method and then run this script.

Backscript (backupscript.sh)

This script is used for AWS EBS backup management of Snapshot. We have created it to let you set cron and schedule automated backup. It is used with retention script.

Update Script (update.sh)

This script is used for Update Management of AWS AMIs. We have created it to let you update and upgrade the AMI, it will create a cron for automatic Update and Upgrade at 1:00 AM UTC.

Requirements

• These scripts requires AWS IAM user credentials to be created with proper IAM security policy.

Getting Started

• To run these scripts, you require the AWS CLI tools to be installed.

• First you have to install Python pip:

  • Install Python pip

   sudo apt-get install python-pip -y

• Then install the AWS CLI tools:

  • Install AWS CLI tools

  sudo pip install awscli

• Once the AWS CLI tools has been installed, you'll need to configure it with the credentials of the IAM user which you have created.

  • To configre aws

  sudo aws configure

How to install and excute the scripts

• Install and run the snapshot scripts

  • Make a folder to save the scripts

  sudo mkdir iscripts

    cd ~
    wget  https://github.com/Intuz-production/Utilities-to-Manage-AWS-Snapshots/blob/master/snapshotscript.sh
    wget  https://github.com/Intuz-production/Utilities-to-Manage-AWS-Snapshots/blob/master/rp.sh
    wget  https://github.com/Intuz-production/Utilities-to-Manage-AWS-Snapshots/blob/master/backup.sh

• To make the Scripts excuteable run the following command

  sudo chmod +x snapshotscript.sh (script-name)
  

• To run the script

  • As this script is linked with snapshotscript and backup script which will create snapshot and set up a cron job in order to schedule a backup.

   cd ~
   sudo bash rp.sh

• Install and run the Update script

  wget https://github.com/Intuz-production/Utilities-to-Manage-AWS-Snapshots/blob/master/update.sh
  sudo chmod +x update.sh
  sudo bash update.sh

Bugs and Feedback

For bugs, questions and discussions please use the Github Issues.

License

The MIT License (MIT)

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