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Asked: 2026-06-09T15:43:35+00:00

I was just put on a task to try and debug and figure out

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I was just put on a task to try and debug and figure out why our ec2-consistent-snapshot script isn’t working.

Our lead programmer followed this blog post.

We have a .sh script that we’d like to take the snapshot and it looks like this:

#!/bin/sh
/opt/aws/bin/ec2-consistent-snapshot --aws-access-key-id MYACCESSKEY --aws-secret-access-key MYSECRETKEY --freeze-filesystem /vol --mysql --mysql-host localhost --mysql-socket /var/lib/mysql/mysql.sock --mysql-username USERNAME --mysql-password PASSWORD --description "Demo MySQL data volume: $(date +%c)" vol-MYVOL

If I run this by doing sudo ./snapshot_script.sh I get a single error:

ec2-consistent-snapshot: ERROR: create_snapshot: File does not exist: at /usr/share/perl5/vendor_perl/Net/Amazon/EC2.pm line 232

I of course followed this error and line 232 in EC2.pm is this:

my $ref = $xs->XMLin($xml);

I have 0 perl experience and I don’t know what this could be doing.

Any help would be wonderful.

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  1. Editorial Team

    The Net::Amazon::EC2 that I’m looking at on CPAN has that line at 252, not 232 so perhaps you are not on the latest version. Looking above that line, the program has attempted to do a “query to sign” using lots of the security parms. I suspect there is a problem with the authentication keys you are using. There is a debug flag, you might want to turn that on to generate more messages.

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