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AWS LightSail Create Snapshots

August 8, 2019

Here’s my script to create snapshots of a LightSail instance. Create daily or weekly snapshots.

#!/bin/bash
if [ $1 != '' ]; then 
  prefix=$1
  timestamp=$(date +%s)
  snapshotname=$prefix'_web-server_'$timestamp
  /usr/local/bin/aws lightsail create-instance-snapshot \
  --instance-snapshot-name $snapshotname \
  --instance-name web-server
else
  echo 'Need one argument. e.g. daily or weekly'
fi

Crontab. Job can be scheduled daily or weekly.

# run daily at 4am
0 4 * * * /bin/bash /root/snapshots/create-snapshot.sh daily 2>&1
# run weekly every sunday at 5am
0 5 * * 0 /bin/bash /root/snapshots/create-snapshot.sh weekly 2>&1

AWS CLI IAM Create User

July 22, 2019

How to create an IAM user via AWS CLI.

aws iam create-user --user-name john.doe

AWS LightSail Create Instance

June 24, 2019

How to create a LightSail instance from a snapshot via AWS CLI.

aws lightsail create-instances-from-snapshot \
--instance-names your-server-name \
--availability-zone us-east-1a \
--instance-snapshot-name your-snapshot \
--bundle-id nano_1_0 \
--key-pair-name your-key-pair

AWS CLI Create LightSail Snapshot

June 21, 2019

Here’s the AWS CLI for creating a LightSail snapshot.

aws lightsail create-instance-snapshot \
--instance-snapshot-name test-snapshot \
--instance-name your-server

Here’s how to delete a snapshot.

aws lightsail delete-instance-snapshot \
--instance-snapshot-name test-snapshot

StatsMaker

March 26, 2019

A couple of personal statistics scripts.

# create stats. can be run from cron.
/var/www/statsmaker/create.sh
# fix. must supply date.
/var/www/statsmaker/fix.sh 190201