Instruction for ec2-automate-backup on Ubuntu 14 server

[jgardezi]

Hi,

I am having issues running ec2-automate-backup.sh as cron Job on Ubuntu 14 server. When I run a command
/home/backup-agent/scripts/ec2-automate-backup.sh -s tag -t Backup,Values=true -k 31 -r ap-southeast-2 on terminal it works fine and I can see it also creates snapshots.

The issue is when I try run this as a cron job it does not work. This is my cron command and I am trying to run it on 11pm every day. I have used crontab -e to schedule the cron job.
00 23 * * * /home/backup-agent/scripts/ec2-automate-backup.sh -s tag -t Backup,Values=true -k 31 -r ap-southeast-2

Please let me know what is going on or any steps I am missing i.e. cron-primer.sh?

Kind regards,
Javed Gardezi

[insiderq]

same problem

[jgardezi]

Hi @insiderq

I resolved this issue by issues the following command. It is not picking up role permissions assigned to ec2.

55 23 * * * root AWS_CONFIG_FILE="/path/to/aws/config" /path/to/this/ebs-snapshot.sh > /var/log/ebs-snapshot.log 2>&1

You can further debug the issue by outputting them to log file and see what's going on.

[insiderq]

I think the problem is in something different. The output shows me nothing. Program works but does nothing.

[jgardezi]

Did you tagged ebs volumes?

[insiderq]

This command works perfectly in shell and really outputs to the log, but when i add it to the crontab it with even * * * * * it seem's to be work, since it empties the log file.
/home/ubuntu/aws-missing-tools/ec2-automate-backup/ec2-automate-backup.sh -s tag -t "Backup,Values=true" -r eu-west-1 -p -k 31 -n -u > /home/ubuntu/backup.log

[guilhermej]

Same problem here.

@insiderq you need to output the error to log file, attach 2>&1 at the end of your cron job.

My error output:
Traceback (most recent call last):
File "/usr/bin/aws", line 23, in
sys.exit(main())
File "/usr/bin/aws", line 19, in main
return awscli.clidriver.main()
File "/usr/share/awscli/awscli/clidriver.py", line 44, in main
driver = create_clidriver()
File "/usr/share/awscli/awscli/clidriver.py", line 53, in create_clidriver
event_hooks=emitter)
File "/usr/share/awscli/awscli/plugin.py", line 44, in load_plugins
modules = _import_plugins(plugin_mapping)
File "/usr/share/awscli/awscli/plugin.py", line 61, in _import_plugins
module = import(path, fromlist=[module])
File "/usr/share/awscli/awscli/handlers.py", line 24, in
from awscli.customizations.ec2addcount import ec2_add_count
File "/usr/share/awscli/awscli/customizations/ec2addcount.py", line 16, in
from botocore.parameters import StringParameter
ImportError: No module named 'botocore.parameters'
An error occurred when running ec2-describe-volumes. The error returned is below:

@jgardezi solution doens't work for me.

[guilhermej]

This is my solution, looks like there are a conflict with awscli installed from pip and apt-get, so i removed awscli with apt-get and reinstall with pip.

sudo apt-get purge awscli
sudo pip install awscli --upgrade --force-reinstall

After this you need to create a link to aws executable:

sudo ln -s /usr/local/bin/aws /usr/bin/aws