AWSnapshots

Simple tool to manage AWS Volume Snapshots using the AWS API

Install

#$ pip install awsnapshots

Configure

Create a configuration file named awsnapshots.yaml in either the current working directory, or use --config path/to/config.yaml if you want to run this script from a different environment.

AWS_ACCESS_KEY: access_key
AWS_ACCESS_KEY: secret_key

Usage

usage: awsnapshots [-h] [--config CONFIG] region volume keep [description]

Simple tool to manage AWS Volume Snapshots using the AWS API.

positional arguments:
  region           The ID of the AWS region where your volumes are. (e.g., us-
                   west-1)
  volume           The ID of the volume you want to take the snapshot from.
                   (e.g., vol-abcd1234)
  keep             Number of snapshots to keep. (i.e., if 3, the last 3
                   snapshots will be kept. When the fourth one is taken, the
                   oldest will be automatically deleted.
  description      Snapshot description

optional arguments:
  -h, --help       show this help message and exit
  --config CONFIG  YAML formatted configuration file to be used. Default is
                   ./awsnapshots.yaml

Example:

#$ awsnapshots us-west-1 vol-abcd1234 3 "Test snapshots"

The above example will create a snapshot of the volume vol-abcd1234 located at us-west-1, named Test snapshots, each time it's called. If you run it four or more times, only the latest 3 snapshots will be kept. The older ones will be deleted.