2023 November 5
We have been running on the AWS Linux 2023 platform since 2023-10-16
with no problems and we're not going back, so it's time to get rid of
the legacy instance and its storage volumes, which are running up
bills whilst sitting there idle. These are:
Instance: i-0756b0658cac51c9d (Scanalyst (Linux 2 Legacy))
/dev/xvda vol-075b7c5e09688d5e6 (Scanalyst L2 root) 32 Gb
/dev/sdb vol-0dd32c02c3bbe7e18 (Scanalyst L2 server) 128 Gb
Detached volumes with Volumes panel/select volume/Actions/Detach volume.
Instance storage tab shows no volumes attached.
Deleted volumes with Volumes panel/select volume/Actions/Delete volume.
Terminated instance with Instances panel/select instance/Instance state/
Terminate instance.
Status went to Shutting-down, then Terminated. We'll confirm it's gone
on the morrow.
And...it's gone!
Now let's clean up ancient Scanalyst backup images and their
associated file system snapshots. Our policy is to keep backups around
for about the last six months, but these only get cleaned up when I get
around to it, such as today. Here are the backups to be purged, with
each listed by its AMI name, AMI ID, and associated file system
snapshots, from oldest to newest. Note that when deleting a backup
you must first delete the AMI ("Deregister AMI") and then manually
delete the file system snapshots. You can't delete the snapshots while
they're attached to an AMI.
Scanalyst Backup 2022-08-12 ami-027d2af449a36b93b
Root snap-051e6dd486aeb083a
Server snap-0eae8c50c88a1e804
Scanalyst Backup 2022-09-29 ami-0a8dd1d348e7cb480
Root snap-0191f87734bed6bc4
Server snap-0d9ce824b0d65575d
Scanalyst Backup 2022-11-02 ami-00582249f4fecd748
Root snap-0fb07d2230caddd92
Server snap-00644fa844a49db8b
Scanalyst Backup 2022-11-15 ami-014818d3be9bdfe1a
Root snap-0b555e3cb1330ad44
Server snap-0b225a05f2e850aa9
Scanalyst Backup 2022-11-30 ami-0f14c9c685e0f742b
Root snap-00f00d9ad3487c01e
Server snap-04c09d9a2e8ff74ca
Scanalyst Backup 2023-01-04 ami-0aea3cc0e0cd2db03
Root snap-094cd8bb7ed24e7fd
Server snap-0a730d2540e3d4759
Scanalyst Backup 2023-01-13 ami-0ebedba2578b7a820
Root snap-0d6f995e991ce9d9d
Server snap-0e641cc093dfc3de8
Scanalyst Backup 2023-01-26 ami-0a961e0164b0a48cc
Root snap-0e0cc57fc452a2525
Server snap-0aafa313d255911dd
Scanalyst Backup 2023-03-03 ami-00b01cfd8b1c32ef7
Root snap-069a21550c62aa652
Server snap-0b25ff7df3942435b
Scanalyst Backup 2023-03-17 ami-09ea87968630d8b41
Root snap-0bb8ac1b46b8805a5
Server snap-036cc92464c885fd0
Scanalyst Backup 2023-04-18 ami-0a329322db25d00a4
Root snap-0507b136c61445d66
Server snap-0901fe0bd4ec72b2b
On 2021-10-03, during the initial configuration of the system, we had
to resize the root volume due to Docker's insistence on installing
itself and its applications there. Before the hazardous resizing
step, I made the following snapshot of the original root volume:
Scanalyst root backup 2021-10-03 01:11 snap-04347d032d7206aa9
The resizing went OK, and I promptly forgot about the snapshot, leaving
it around and running up storage charges to the present day. I
stumbled over it while doing the above cleanups and deleted it today.