Comments on: How to delete those old EC2 EBS snapshots

By: Caio

Caio — Thu, 20 Oct 2011 02:07:25 +0000

Hello, I am getting this error when running:
PHP Notice: Undefined variable: go_ahead_volumes in / amazon/ec2-delete-old-snapshots/ec2-delete-old-snapshots.php on line 77
PHP Warning: in_array () expects parameter 2 to be array, null Given in / amazon/ec2-delete-old-snapshots/ec2-delete-old-snapshots.php on line 77
You know what can be?

thank you

By: David Gildeh

David Gildeh — Fri, 12 Mar 2010 18:00:46 +0000

I didn’t like this script at all – too many additional libraries to download and install, and works on time period to keep, not number of snapshots. I’ve implemented my own version here which should be much easier for people to install and run:

http://www.sambastream.com/blogs/dgildeh/12-03-10/implementing-revolving-backups-aws-ec2

Hope this helps!

By: Erik Dasque

Erik Dasque — Mon, 08 Mar 2010 16:50:38 +0000

For region enabled improvments and some additional functionality (manages daily/weekly/monthly ec2 snapshots), check out:

ec2-manage-snapshots http://bit.ly/9MO76l

By: Erik Dasque

Erik Dasque — Wed, 03 Mar 2010 16:04:40 +0000

I have made changes to the code so that it works on other regions as well a bit of cleanup. Hoping to commit those soon.

By: Alex Stoneham

Alex Stoneham — Fri, 19 Feb 2010 23:22:30 +0000

They probably make it easy to create hard to remove, so they stay around, thus filling up the coffers of amazons accounts.

By: NyRy

NyRy — Sun, 31 Jan 2010 00:36:32 +0000

Trying to execute you script I get the following error:

php ec2-delete-old-snapshots.php -v vol-3ff83856 -o 0

Will try to bulk delete for vol-3ff83856 older than 2010/01/30 06:55:35

Fatal error: Class ‘XsltProcessor’ not found in
/usr/share/php/Amazon/EC2/Client.php on line 2584

By: Oren

Oren — Tue, 28 Jul 2009 09:01:10 +0000

Hi Wilson,

It’s not different by much, they both use the same API call.
However, this solution let’s you bulk delete by volume ID and limit by date — you can’t do these things with the java ec2-delete-snapshots command line tool.

By: wilsonmar

wilsonmar — Tue, 28 Jul 2009 08:43:30 +0000

How is this different than Amazon’s ec2-delete-snapshots API command?

By: Oren

Oren — Sun, 03 May 2009 06:55:54 +0000

Currently the EC2 library used is before the regions API update. You can try downloading the most recent API and tweak the code as necessary.

By: JoaoJose

JoaoJose — Sat, 02 May 2009 16:36:48 +0000

It works flawlessly with US snapshots but not with EU snapshots. Any ideas in how to solve this?

Thanks!