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Command-line utility to clean up EBS snapshots
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 Dependencies

Runtime

= 0.9.12
aws_credentials
>= 0
 Project Readme

ebs_snapshot_cleanup¶ ↑

Command-line utility to clean up your EBS snapshots.

You’ll be prompted before anything is removed. In this version:

  • every snapshot in the current month is retained

  • last snapshot for every prior month is returned, all others are removed

In addition, you’re prompted to remove snapshots of volumes that no longer exist.

INSTALL¶ ↑

gem install ebs_snapshot_cleanup --source http://gemcutter.org

USAGE¶ ↑

Make sure your have an /etc/aws.conf as per aws_credentials. Then:

cleanup-ebs-snapshots

and follow the prompts.

AUTHOR¶ ↑

Ben Koski, bkoski@nytimes.com