Comments on: Deleting Old EBS Snapshots

By: rodney

rodney — Tue, 24 May 2011 02:15:45 +0000

You can create an image of a Windows instance via the AWS Management Console but I don’t know how to do it on Windows system. Maybe a scheduled task on Windows can make a daily snapshot.

By: saravana

saravana — Sun, 22 May 2011 05:38:41 +0000

i required script for Amazon EC2 Daily Snapshot Script for Windows

By: Rodney

Rodney — Fri, 26 Mar 2010 15:00:01 +0000

http://www.sambastream.com/blogs/dgildeh/12-03-10/implementing-revolving-backups-aws-ec2

By: rodney

rodney — Sun, 21 Feb 2010 07:45:04 +0000

Bob,

Good point.

Another note is for multi user server, these files even if they are at /mnt must be secured also for read only on root and no access to other users which is easily be fixed using chmod command.

It’s always best to review and double check your private AMI settings before making them public.

By: Peregrinator

Peregrinator — Sat, 20 Feb 2010 20:46:29 +0000

It’s worth noting that placing .my.cnf and .awssecret in $HOME will lead to them getting bundled with any AMI you create from that server.

To prevent accidental exposure of the secret keys and passwords should you make that AMI public I would recommend placing them in /mnt and symlinking them to the $HOME directory.

ln -s /mnt/.my.cnf /home/ubuntu/.my.cnf
ln -s /mnt/.awssecret /home/ubuntu/.awssecret

By: Amazon Relational Data Service

Amazon Relational Data Service — Tue, 27 Oct 2009 09:37:58 +0000

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