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This script allows uploading gzipped rds postgres backups to amazon s3. Database credentials are retrieved from aws parameter store.

ENVIRONMENT allows tagging different environments, we use prod and dev as possible values.

IDENTIFIER is a database identifier, e.g. db. The identifier is used for querying configuration options and for naming the result in s3.

REGION is the aws region to operate in.

• /$ENVIRONMENT/cron/backup/$IDENTIFIER/host: database host name
• /$ENVIRONMENT/cron/backup/$IDENTIFIER/name: database name
• /$ENVIRONMENT/cron/backup/$IDENTIFIER/user: database user name
• /$ENVIRONMENT/cron/backup/$IDENTIFIER/password: database password
• /$ENVIRONMENT/cron/backup/$IDENTIFIER/bucket: target s3 bucket

After completion, the script creates a gzipped backup in the target s3 bucket named $IDENTIFIER-YYYY-MM-DD.sql.gz. All backups are stored in STANDARD_IA storage class.