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Creating Consistent Snapshots of a Live Instance with XFS on a Boot-from-EBS AMI

January 17, 2010

Eric Hammond has taught us how to create consistent snapshots of EBS volumes. Amazon has allowed us to use EBS snapshots as AMIs, providing a persistent root filesystem. Wouldn’t it be great if you could use both of these techniques together, to take a consistent snapshot of the root filesystem without stopping the instance? Read [...]

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