Google Compute Engine Snapshot

Overview

• Takes daily snapshot of primary disk without any user input
• Deletes all snapshots that are older than 7 days

Prerequisite

• cURL must be installed

Limitations

• Only works for the primary disk on VM

Setup

• I run the script from cron.d: 0 05 * * * root sh /1/snapshot.sh >> /var/log/cron/snapshot.log 2>&1
• I created the var/log/cron directory for all of my cron outputs
• I added the var/log/cron directory folder to logrotate: /etc/logrotate.d/cron

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## Downloading the script and opening in Windows?
 * If you download the script and open it on a Windows machine, that may add windows character's to the file: https://github.com/Forward-Action/google-compute-snapshot/issues/1.