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dlowhorn/purge-snapshots
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Purge automatic AWS Lightsail Snapshots

1.0.0(5y ago)020MPL-2.0-no-copyleft-exceptionPHPPHP >=7.1

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AWS Lightsail Automatic Snapshot Purging
========================================

[](#aws-lightsail-automatic-snapshot-purging)

Usage
-----

[](#usage)

Copy vendor/dlowhorn/purge-snapshots/bin/purgeSnapshots.php to root of your project, then:

```
php purgeSnapshots.php [resource name] [aws region] [days to keep] [api version]

```

Example
-------

[](#example)

**Delete any automatic snapshot older than 5 days:**

```
php purgeSnapshots.php my-lightsail-instance-name us-east-1 5 2016-11-28

```

###  Health Score

22

—

LowBetter than 22% of packages

Maintenance20

Infrequent updates — may be unmaintained

Popularity6

Limited adoption so far

Community7

Small or concentrated contributor base

Maturity48

Maturing project, gaining track record

 Bus Factor1

Top contributor holds 100% of commits — single point of failure

How is this calculated?**Maintenance (25%)** — Last commit recency, latest release date, and issue-to-star ratio. Uses a 2-year decay window.

**Popularity (30%)** — Total and monthly downloads, GitHub stars, and forks. Logarithmic scaling prevents top-heavy scores.

**Community (15%)** — Contributors, dependents, forks, watchers, and maintainers. Measures real ecosystem engagement.

**Maturity (30%)** — Project age, version count, PHP version support, and release stability.

###  Release Activity

Cadence

Unknown

Total

1

Last Release

1919d ago

### Community

Maintainers

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