cloud engineer
by Ulysses
Here’s the script to backup GCP disks.
#!/bin/bash now=$(date +%s) disks=$(gcloud compute disks list --project project-id --filter="users:instance" --format="value(name)") for disk in $disks do gcloud compute disks snapshot $disk \ --snapshot-names=$disk-$now \ --zone=us-central1-a \ --project=project-id \ --async done |
#!/bin/bash now=$(date +%s) disks=$(gcloud compute disks list --project project-id --filter="users:instance" --format="value(name)") for disk in $disks do gcloud compute disks snapshot $disk \ --snapshot-names=$disk-$now \ --zone=us-central1-a \ --project=project-id \ --async done
by Ulysses
How to display Lightsail snapshots.
#!/bin/bash displaysnapshots () { echo '--------------------------------------------------------' aws lightsail get-instance-snapshots --query 'instanceSnapshots[].[name]' --output text | sort echo '--------------------------------------------------------' } displaysnapshots |
#!/bin/bash displaysnapshots () { echo '--------------------------------------------------------' aws lightsail get-instance-snapshots --query 'instanceSnapshots[].[name]' --output text | sort echo '--------------------------------------------------------' } displaysnapshots
Result.
daily_ulyme_1637812801 daily_ulyme_1637899201 daily_ulyme_1637985601 daily_ulyme_1638072001 |
daily_ulyme_1637812801 daily_ulyme_1637899201 daily_ulyme_1637985601 daily_ulyme_1638072001
Adding timestamp to the output.
aws lightsail get-instance-snapshots --query 'instanceSnapshots[].[name,createdAt]' --output text | sort |
aws lightsail get-instance-snapshots --query 'instanceSnapshots[].[name,createdAt]' --output text | sort
Result.
daily_ulyme_1637812801 1637812806.853 daily_ulyme_1637899201 1637899208.285 daily_ulyme_1637985601 1637985606.184 daily_ulyme_1638072001 1638072006.579 |
daily_ulyme_1637812801 1637812806.853 daily_ulyme_1637899201 1637899208.285 daily_ulyme_1637985601 1637985606.184 daily_ulyme_1638072001 1638072006.579
Convert Unix timestamp to iso8601. Edit your ~/.aws/config file. Add this line.
cli_timestamp_format = iso8601 |
cli_timestamp_format = iso8601
Result.
daily_ulyme_1637812801 2021-11-25T04:00:06.853000+00:00 daily_ulyme_1637899201 2021-11-26T04:00:08.285000+00:00 daily_ulyme_1637985601 2021-11-27T04:00:06.184000+00:00 daily_ulyme_1638072001 2021-11-28T04:00:06.579000+00:00 |
daily_ulyme_1637812801 2021-11-25T04:00:06.853000+00:00 daily_ulyme_1637899201 2021-11-26T04:00:08.285000+00:00 daily_ulyme_1637985601 2021-11-27T04:00:06.184000+00:00 daily_ulyme_1638072001 2021-11-28T04:00:06.579000+00:00
by Ulysses
Instead of using AWS and JQ to get the snapshot names, you can do it with a single command using –query.
Here are the previous commands.
/usr/bin/aws lightsail get-instance-snapshots --region us-east-1 --profile default > $snaps cat $snaps | jq -r '.instanceSnapshots[] | .name' > $names |
/usr/bin/aws lightsail get-instance-snapshots --region us-east-1 --profile default > $snaps cat $snaps | jq -r '.instanceSnapshots[] | .name' > $names
Using query.
aws lightsail get-instance-snapshots \ --query 'instanceSnapshots[*].[name]' \ --region us-east-1 \ --profile default \ --output text > $names |
aws lightsail get-instance-snapshots \ --query 'instanceSnapshots[*].[name]' \ --region us-east-1 \ --profile default \ --output text > $names
by Ulysses
When trying to boot from a disk created from snapshot and you’re getting an “UEFI feature is not available for this project” error, you’ll need to create a boot image with the –guest-os-features option set to “UEFI_COMPATIBLE.”
gcloud compute disks create new-server-disk-2 \ --project=project-name \ --source-snapshot=server-disk-2 \ --zone=us-central1-b \ --guest-os-features="UEFI_COMPATIBLE" |
gcloud compute disks create new-server-disk-2 \ --project=project-name \ --source-snapshot=server-disk-2 \ --zone=us-central1-b \ --guest-os-features="UEFI_COMPATIBLE"
It’s about enabling guest operating system features on custom images. The guest operating system features let you configure networking, security, storage, and operating system options on custom images to be used on boot disks.
by Ulysses
Here’s how to describe snapshots using query with tags.
aws ec2 describe-snapshots \ --owner-ids xxxxxxxxxxx \ --profile default \ --region us-east-2 \ --output text \ --query "Snapshots[*].[SnapshotId,Tags[?Key=='Name'].Value[] | [0]]" |
aws ec2 describe-snapshots \ --owner-ids xxxxxxxxxxx \ --profile default \ --region us-east-2 \ --output text \ --query "Snapshots[*].[SnapshotId,Tags[?Key=='Name'].Value[] | [0]]"
Result.
snap-xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx Server1 snap-xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx Server2 |
snap-xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx Server1 snap-xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx Server2
by Ulysses
Here’s how to copy a disk from one project to another.
gcloud compute disks create lamp-server \ --source-snapshot https://www.googleapis.com/compute/v1/projects/project-id/global/snapshots/lamp-server \ --project next-project-id \ --zone us-central1-a |
gcloud compute disks create lamp-server \ --source-snapshot https://www.googleapis.com/compute/v1/projects/project-id/global/snapshots/lamp-server \ --project next-project-id \ --zone us-central1-a
Once all the disks are copied. You can create a snapshot of the boot.
gcloud compute disks snapshot lamp-server |
gcloud compute disks snapshot lamp-server
Create an instance from snapshot.
gcloud compute disks create "hostname-boot" \ --project "project-id" \ --zone "us-central1-a" \ --source-snapshot "snapshot-name" \ --type "pd-standard" \ --size "100" |
gcloud compute disks create "hostname-boot" \ --project "project-id" \ --zone "us-central1-a" \ --source-snapshot "snapshot-name" \ --type "pd-standard" \ --size "100"
by Ulysses
Here’s my script to delete AWS LightSail snapshots. It can delete daily or weekly backups and scheduled via crontab. If you want longer or shorter retention, adjust the expired value. It’s in seconds. 604800 is 1 week. 2592000 is 1 month.
#!/bin/bash current=$(date +%s) if [ $# -eq 0 ]; then exit 1 fi if [[ $1 = 'daily' ]]; then prefix='daily' expired=$(($current-604800)) elif [[ $1 = 'weekly' ]]; then prefix='weekly' expired=$(($current-2592000)) else exit 1 fi snaps='/root/snapshots/snapshots.json' names='/root/snapshots/names.txt' parse='/root/snapshots/parse.txt' logfile='/root/snapshots/snapshots.log' /usr/local/bin/aws lightsail get-instance-snapshots > $snaps cat $snaps | jq -r '.instanceSnapshots[] | .name' > $names cat $names | grep $prefix > $parse while read -r line; do snapshot=$(echo $line | cut -d_ -f3) snapshotname=$line if [ `expr $snapshot + 1 2> /dev/null` ] ; then if [ $snapshot -le $expired ]; then echo 'Deleted: '$snapshotname >> $logfile /usr/local/bin/aws lightsail delete-instance-snapshot \ --instance-snapshot-name $snapshotname else echo 'Nothing: '$snapshotname >> $logfile fi else echo $snapshot is not numeric > /dev/null fi done < $parse echo 'Current time: '$current >> $logfile echo 'Expired time: '$expired >> $logfile echo '-----------------------------------' >> $logfile |
#!/bin/bash current=$(date +%s) if [ $# -eq 0 ]; then exit 1 fi if [[ $1 = 'daily' ]]; then prefix='daily' expired=$(($current-604800)) elif [[ $1 = 'weekly' ]]; then prefix='weekly' expired=$(($current-2592000)) else exit 1 fi snaps='/root/snapshots/snapshots.json' names='/root/snapshots/names.txt' parse='/root/snapshots/parse.txt' logfile='/root/snapshots/snapshots.log' /usr/local/bin/aws lightsail get-instance-snapshots > $snaps cat $snaps | jq -r '.instanceSnapshots[] | .name' > $names cat $names | grep $prefix > $parse while read -r line; do snapshot=$(echo $line | cut -d_ -f3) snapshotname=$line if [ `expr $snapshot + 1 2> /dev/null` ] ; then if [ $snapshot -le $expired ]; then echo 'Deleted: '$snapshotname >> $logfile /usr/local/bin/aws lightsail delete-instance-snapshot \ --instance-snapshot-name $snapshotname else echo 'Nothing: '$snapshotname >> $logfile fi else echo $snapshot is not numeric > /dev/null fi done < $parse echo 'Current time: '$current >> $logfile echo 'Expired time: '$expired >> $logfile echo '-----------------------------------' >> $logfile
Schedule deletes via crontab.
# run daily at 5am 0 5 * * * /bin/bash /root/snapshots/delete-snapshot.sh daily 2>&1 # run weekly every sunday at 6am 0 6 * * 0 /bin/bash /root/snapshots/delete-snapshot.sh weekly 2>&1 |
# run daily at 5am 0 5 * * * /bin/bash /root/snapshots/delete-snapshot.sh daily 2>&1 # run weekly every sunday at 6am 0 6 * * 0 /bin/bash /root/snapshots/delete-snapshot.sh weekly 2>&1
by Ulysses
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 |
#!/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 |
# 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