Bash script to run postgres backup using AWS CLI

postgres_backup.sh

#!/bin/bash
PATH=/usr/bin:/bin:/home/ubuntu/.local/bin:$PATH
# create dump file
TIMESTAMP=$(date +%Y-%m-%d--%H_%M_%S)
FILENAME="ridelist_"$TIMESTAMP".dump"
pg_dump -U postgres -h localhost -p 6059 ridelist > $FILENAME

# compress
tar czvf $FILENAME".tar.gz" $FILENAME

# upload to S3
# get access to the AWS keys
# the environment variable for AWS CLI is located at ~/.aws/credentials
# format: http://docs.aws.amazon.com/cli/latest/topic/config-vars.html#config-file-format

# the credentials are found in ~/.aws/config
aws s3 cp $FILENAME".tar.gz" s3://untold-ride-list-backups/

# if it completed successfully
# see http://docs.aws.amazon.com/cli/latest/topic/return-codes.html
if [ $? -eq 0 ]; then
  # remove compressed backup
  rm $FILENAME".tar.gz"
fi

# remove uncompressed backup
rm $FILENAME