Comments on: A quick way to automate AWS EC2 Snapshots

By: KEVIN KRUZICH

KEVIN KRUZICH — Tue, 07 Jun 2011 02:42:37 +0000

@Phil: The key and cert files here are the x.509 Certificates available here:

AWS Console -> Account -> Security Credentials -> x.509 Certificates

By: Phil

Phil — Thu, 28 Apr 2011 03:18:23 +0000

For some reason this isn’t working when I try to run it in cron – it says I need to specify the key and certificate files. I have these environment variables set in my .bashrc , and the command works OK straight from the command line. What do I have to do to get this to work in cron? (sysadmin newb here)

By: Alvin Kreitman

Alvin Kreitman — Sat, 31 Jul 2010 00:18:08 +0000

Very true; thanks for the input Doug.

By: Doug

Doug — Fri, 30 Jul 2010 21:05:02 +0000

a better tool to use especially if you’re running mysql on any of your instances is the ec2-consistent-backup program. It will freeze your drive and mysql for a couple seconds so you get a clean snapshot that you can safely reload mysql from. Otherwise the binary files can often be corrupted because of database reads/writes happening during the snapshot process.

http://developer.amazonwebservices.com/connect/entry.jspa?externalID=1663