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boto script to delete snapshots matching a filter and older than X days
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import sys | |
from boto.ec2 import connect_to_region | |
from datetime import datetime, timedelta | |
try: | |
days = int(sys.argv[1]) | |
except IndexError: | |
days = 7 | |
delete_time = datetime.utcnow() - timedelta(days=days) | |
filters = { | |
'tag-key': 'mybackups' | |
} | |
print 'Deleting any snapshots older than {days} days'.format(days=days) | |
ec2 = connect_to_region('us-west-1') | |
snapshots = ec2.get_all_snapshots(filters=filters) | |
deletion_counter = 0 | |
size_counter = 0 | |
for snapshot in snapshots: | |
start_time = datetime.strptime( | |
snapshot.start_time, | |
'%Y-%m-%dT%H:%M:%S.000Z' | |
) | |
if start_time < delete_time: | |
print 'Deleting {id}'.format(id=snapshot.id) | |
deletion_counter = deletion_counter + 1 | |
size_counter = size_counter + snapshot.volume_size | |
# Just to make sure you're reading! | |
snapshot.delete(dry_run=True) | |
print 'Deleted {number} snapshots totalling {size} GB'.format( | |
number=deletion_counter, | |
size=size_counter | |
) |
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This is helpful. How can we do this for RDS manual snapshots with for each loop for all regions.