Comments on: Simple update and clone an Amazon EC2 EBS Boot image http://blog.ibd.com/scalable-deployment/simple-update-and-clone-an-amazon-ec2-ebs-boot-image/ Internet Bandwidth Development: Composting the Internet for over Two Decades Sat, 07 Jan 2012 01:36:09 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: Shlomo Swidler http://blog.ibd.com/scalable-deployment/simple-update-and-clone-an-amazon-ec2-ebs-boot-image/comment-page-1/#comment-68 Shlomo Swidler Fri, 05 Mar 2010 09:38:37 +0000 http://blog.ibd.com/?p=533#comment-68 Cool. You can create bootable EBS volumes that are formatted with the XFS filesystem, allowing you to "freeze" the filesystem, call the ec2-create-snapshot command, and the "unfreeze" the filesystem. This way you can create a consistent, bootable snapshot of the live-running instance. Here's my article explaining how to do this: http://www.shlomoswidler.com/2010/01/creating-consistent-snapshots-of-live.html Cool.

You can create bootable EBS volumes that are formatted with the XFS filesystem, allowing you to “freeze” the filesystem, call the ec2-create-snapshot command, and the “unfreeze” the filesystem. This way you can create a consistent, bootable snapshot of the live-running instance.

Here’s my article explaining how to do this:

http://www.shlomoswidler.com/2010/01/creating-consistent-snapshots-of-live.html

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