Set up automatic Google Cloud Snapshots

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Automatic Google Cloud Snapshots

Made possible by jacksegal/google-compute-snapshot

Prerequesits:

  • Set Cloud API scope for Compute Engine to Read/Write (requires VM shutdown)

Install Google Cloud Snapshot

sudo mkdir /opt/google-compute-snapshot
sudo mkdir /opt/google-compute-snapshot/log
cd /opt/google-compute-snapshot/
sudo wget https://raw.githubusercontent.com/jacksegal/google-compute-snapshot/master/gcloud-snapshot.sh 
sudo chmod +x gcloud-snapshot.sh

Set up logging

cd /opt/google-compute-snapshot/log
sudo touch snapshot.log
sudo chown pbxadmin:root snapshot.log
sudo chmod 664 snapshot.log

Set up logrotate

sudo nano /etc/logrotate.d/cron

Paste the following into the cron file

/opt/google-compute-snapshot/log/*.log { 
daily 
missingok 
rotate 14 
compress 
notifempty 
create 664 root adm 
sharedscripts }

Set up Cron job

sudo crontab -e

Add cron line

10 0 * * * /opt/google-compute-snapshot/gcloud-snapshot.sh >> /opt/google-compute-snapshot/log/snapshot.log 2>&1

To Run manually

sudo /opt/google-compute-snapshot/gcloud-snapshot.sh >> /opt/google-compute-snapshot/log/snapshot.log 2>&1