kingd762949 / SwiftSnap

A compilation of scripts to create and manage Amazon EBS snapshots for point-in-time backups

EBS Snapshot Backup

This repo contains bash script to create EBS snapshots for point-in-time backups and a python script that uses the AWS Boto3 library to retrieve information about EBS snapshots, including their tags and other metadata. This script will allow you to query and display details about your snapshots

The list_snapshots function in the python script accepts three optional parameters:

• min_age_days: Filters snapshots based on their age in days
• tag_key: Filters snapshots based on a specific tag key
• tag_value: Filters snapshots based on a specific tag value

Requirements

• AWS CLI installed and configured with appropriate IAM credentials.
• Replace your_ebs_volume_id_here in create_snapshot.sh with your actual EBS volume ID.

Features

• Creates an EBS snapshot with a timestamp-based descriaa 0 .
• Creates snapshot of Multiple EBS Volumes
• Retains only the latest N snapshots (controlled by num_snapshots_to_retain in the script).
• Logs events to a file (snapshot_log.txt).
• Tagging the snapshots with useful metadata
• Send notifications via email after snapshot creation
• Error handling

Features added to list_snapshots.py

• Deleting Snapshots: Added a function that allows to delete snapshots based on certain criteria, such as age or specific tags
• Copying Snapshots: Added a function that enables you to copy snapshots to another AWS region, helping with cross-region disaster recovery

Usage

1. Clone the repository:

git clone https://github.com/kd9s0/ebs-snapshot-backup.git
cd ebs-snapshot-backup

2. Run the following command in your command-line terminal to install the packages listed in the requirements.txt file:

pip install -r requirements.txt

3. Make create_snapshot.sh executable:

chmod +x create_snapshot.sh

4. Run the script to create an EBS snapshot:

./create_snapshot.sh

5. Query information about EBS snapshot by run command:

python list_snapshots.py