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Snapshotting an EC2 instance

I saw this query on SO: http://stackoverflow.com/questions/3743366/stopping-snapshotting-and-restarting-ebs-server

Now I am confused... I have also encountered an inconsistent state when taking EC2 snapshots of my app. So is this the required process when I want a snapshot of a Unix/Linux/Windows image:

  1. Stop the image
  2. Take a snapshot of the stopped image
  3. Start the image again

Is the above in any documentation? Is the above the same behavior achieved if I run a "snapshot with reboot", which I believe is a flag that can be set?

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