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Automount EBS volume in Amazon EC2 Windows Instance

Does anyone know how to auto-mount an Elastic Block Storage (EBS) volume when starting a Windows 2003 instance in Amazon's Elastic Compute Cloud (EC2)? ...

Growing Amazon EBS Volume sizes

I'm quite impressed with Amazon's EC2 and EBS services. I wanted to know if it is possible to grow an EBS Volume. For example: If I have a 50 GB volume and I start to run out of space, can I bump it up to 100 GB when required? ...

Using Amazon's EBS for MySQL hot backup

What are your experiences using Amazons EBS snapshot features for MySql hot backups. I have a database running a batch processing job in ec2. I backup with EBS snapshot. So far the backups looks consistent. But I am afraid they "will stop being consistent as soon as I stop checking" (Uncertainty principle). What are your experiences wi...

In Amazon EC2, how do I copy a EBS volume to another user?

I have created an amazon EBS volume using my amazon credentials. My customer gave me his customer credentials so that I create for him an EC2 machinge with the disk I created attached, how do I do that? I'm using the web console, if it matters ================== Let me add that when I do create volume in my customer's account and put ...

EBS for storing databases vs. website files

I spent the day experimenting with AWS for the first time. I've got an EC2 instance running and I mounted an Elastic Block Store (EBS) to keep the MySQL databases. Does it make sense to also put my web application files on the EBS, or should I just deploy them to the normal EC2 file system? ...

Oracle DB on Amazon's EC2 + EBS

I just installed Oracle on my Amazon's Virtual EC2 Linux (Ubuntu) Server. Because i'm not really familiar with Oracle Database Administration I'm wondering what files and how i need to move to ESB so when i shut down or terminate my instance the data won't be lost. I have found THIS tutorial, but i'm not sure if this is what i need. ...

Using Amazon Web Services. There seems to be an EBS/ec2-attach-volume fail. Anyone else having this problem?

Here is a transcript of my failed attempt to attach an EBS volume to an instance: user $ ec2-attach-volume vol-7fba5ece --instance i-436ec703 --device /mnt/sdh ATTACHMENT vol-7fba5ece i-436ec703 /mnt/sdh attaching 2009-05-22T19:58:15+0000 I take this as a success message, no? user $ ec2-describe-volumes [....

Automating Amazon EBS snapshots anyone have a good script or solution for this on linux

I'd expect this to be fairly routine, but cannot find a simple approach for creating an managing EBS snapshots automatically. Was hoping there'd be a shceduler in the AWS console.. alas not yet. Would appreciate any suggestions as to how best to do this on from Ubuntu. Thanks ...

what can cause a time gap in data on an amazon ebs partition?

we're admitedly new to the ebs world. having set up a new production couchdb server on amazon ec2+ebs, we ran into an issue where about 7 hours worth of data simply disappeared. to the point where the couchdb logs have a gap in them for that very time frame. we know that things were working fine, then we started to experience issues and ...

MIgrating data from EC2 to S3?

I am running a Rails app using Paperclip to take care of file attachments and image resizing, etc. The app is currently hosted on EngineYard cloud, and all attachments are stored in their EBS. Thinking about using S3 to handle all Paperclip attachments. Does anyone know of a good and safe way for this migration? many thanks! ...

Homemade cheap and cheerful clustering with MySQL+EC2?

I've got a Java web service backed by MySQL + EC2 + EBS. For data integrity I've looked into DRBD, MySQL cluster etc. but wonder if there isn't a simpler solution. I don't need high availability (can handle downtime) There are only a few operations whose data I need to preserve -- creating an account, changing password, purchase receipt...

Number of inodes in a partition not matching up to the maximum number of inodes the partition should support

We are using Amazon EBS to store a large number of small files (<10KB) in a 3-level directory structure. ~/lists# df -h Filesystem Size Used Avail Use% Mounted on /dev/sda1 9.9G 3.9G 5.5G 42% / tmpfs 854M 0 854M 0% /lib/init/rw varrun 854M 64K 854M 1% /var/run varlo...

Amazon EC2 - Swap root instance store device with EBS device

I have an EC2 instance with "instance store" device as a root device. Now, I would like to attach an EBS volume to that same instance, only that I want it to be the root device. Is that possible? What happens to the instance store device in such case? Thanks in advance ...

save on cost when using Amazon EBS

Seeing that Amazon has priced the usage of EBS as: $0.10 per GB-month of provisioned storage; $0.10 per 1 million I/O requests Even though the value is in millions, I/O request add up pretty quickly ... I was wondering if there are any best practices for reducing I/O requests out there. E.g. Use an instance with more than enoug...

Should I persist images on EBS or S3?

I am migrating my Java,Tomcat, Mysql server to AWS EC2. I have already attached EBS volume for storing MySql data. In my web application people may upload images. So I should persist them. There are 2 alternatives in my mind: Save uploaded images to EBS volume. Use the S3 service. The followings are my notes, please be skeptic abou...

EC2- Booting from an EBS snapshot and then detaching the volume to reduce costs

I would like to boot from an EBS snapshot for convenience but then I would like to detach the volume after launch so I don't have to pay for it. Is this possible? ...

EC2 - taking an EBS snapshot, saving to S3, and then launching instances from S3

I like the convenience of taking an AMI snapshot - but ideally I do no want to pay for the volume to be attached to my running instance. Is there a way to save a snapshot instance to S3 and then launch from S3 without attaching a volume to the running instance - gaining the convenience of snapshots - without the running costs? ...

Reduce EBS volume

I know about increasing, but is there a way reduce the size of an EBS volume? Like I've put effort into my AMI but soon realized it's way to big for my needs. It's a windows 2008 instance. ...

Creating Amazon EBS volumes using existing snapshot is creating problems

Hi All, I created a EBS volume, attached and mounted it on a EC2 instance. Created few sample text files in the mounted directory and took a snapshot from AWS console. Problem is when I create a new EBS volume using this snapshot and mount this new volume, I am not seeing the stored content (in snapshot). What can be the issue? Is my ...

PostgreSQL and Amazon EBS Snapshots?

I found this article explaining how to run MySQL on Amazon EC2. It talks about using XFS as the filesystem and then leveraging EBS snapshots to create backups of the data. Does anyone know if I can do something similar using PostgreSQL? Are there changes to the SQL commands to FLUSH and LOCK the tables? Thanks! ...