[ec2-beta] Automatic snapshotting of EBS

[Thomas Butter]

Hi Micah,

you could use the script below in a cronjob. EBS snapshots are  
instantenous. If your database does proper flushing of the transaction  
logs no freezing at the db/fs level is needed.

export EC2_HOME=/PATH/TO/EC2-API-TOOLS
export JAVA_HOME=/PATH/TO/YOUR/JAVA/HOME
export PK_FILE=/PATH/TO/YOUR/EC2_PRIVATE_KEY
export CERT_FILE=/PATH/TO/YOUR/EC2_CERT
export VOLUME=VOLUME-ID (e.g. vol-12345678)

$EC2_HOME/bin/ec2-create-snapshot -K $PK_FILE -C $CERT_FILE $VOLUME

Regards,

Thomas

On 15.04.2009, at 17:57, Micah Walter wrote:

> Hi,
> I would like to set up auto-snapshotting of my EBS volume mounted on
> the Ubuntu-beta instance I am running.
>
> Is there any documentation available or synopsis of what is required?
>
> I found a few things online but they look a little out-dated...
>
> thanks
> micah
>
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