From ee2193fcbe6ee9eca1e115bba9d83f716b98c42b Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Jon Higgs <jhiggs0@gmail.com>
Date: Thu, 31 Jan 2013 16:19:58 +0100
Subject: [PATCH] make sure that that the region doesn't get overwritten.

---
 ec2-automate-backup/ec2-automate-backup.sh | 13 ++++++++-----
 1 file changed, 8 insertions(+), 5 deletions(-)

diff --git a/ec2-automate-backup/ec2-automate-backup.sh b/ec2-automate-backup/ec2-automate-backup.sh
index 3ef1e57..056e33e 100755
--- a/ec2-automate-backup/ec2-automate-backup.sh
+++ b/ec2-automate-backup/ec2-automate-backup.sh
@@ -150,11 +150,6 @@ app_name=`basename $0`
 
 #sets defaults
 selection_method="volumeid"
-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=""
@@ -190,6 +185,14 @@ if [[ -n $cron_primer ]]
 	fi
 fi
 
+if [ -z $region ]; then
+	if [ -z $EC2_REGION ]; then
+		region="us-east-1"
+	else
+		region="$EC2_REGION"
+	fi
+fi
+
 #calls prerequisitecheck function to ensure that all executables required for script execution are available
 prerequisite_check