From 294c8a8220fb10296f8ca3b05c4577cb41829a9e Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Jon Higgs <jhiggs0@gmail.com>
Date: Mon, 28 Jan 2013 17:18:28 +0100
Subject: [PATCH] use $EC2_REGION if has been set.

---
 ec2-automate-backup/ec2-automate-backup.sh | 7 ++++++-
 1 file changed, 6 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/ec2-automate-backup/ec2-automate-backup.sh b/ec2-automate-backup/ec2-automate-backup.sh
index 7ac4299..833d9d0 100755
--- a/ec2-automate-backup/ec2-automate-backup.sh
+++ b/ec2-automate-backup/ec2-automate-backup.sh
@@ -150,7 +150,12 @@ app_name=`basename $0`
 
 #sets defaults
 selection_method="volumeid"
-region="us-east-1"
+if [ -z $EC2_REGION ];
+  then region="us-east-1"
+else
+  region="$EC2_REGION"
+fi
+
 #date_binary allows a user to set the "date" binary that is installed on their system and, therefore, the options that will be given to the date binary to perform date calculations
 date_binary=""