Update: the complementary article to this one, on Rotating EBS snapshots has now been posted. After the recent failure of EBS volumes on Amazon’s cloud, backup is quite likely something to be considering. If, during the aforementioned incident, recent snapshots of the affected EBS volumes were available, it might have been possible to relaunch instances… Continue reading ec2-consistent-snapshot on Amazon’s Linux AMI
Tag: cron
Scriptless backup with cron
With the new release of WordPress, it is time to ensure that one has a good backup in place before upgrading. While many elaborate systems exist for creating backups, sometimes one just wants a quick and easy way to get the job done. As such, I present below, an easy procedure for a daily incremental… Continue reading Scriptless backup with cron