Posted by R-H on June 19, 2010 at 1:09pm
I've got an EBS Boot Instance running Ubuntu 10.4 Lucid and Mercury 1.1 Beta.
I took a snapshot of that volume and then created a new volume from that snapshot.
There's a Attach Volume option that allows me to attach the volume with my Lucid/Mercury instance to an instance.
Will this allow me to start a new instance of my Lucid/Mercury server?
If so, how do I create an instance that would be suitable for this? Generally instances already have a server OS installed.
This approach would be helpful for recovering from a data loss and starting over from a snapshop backup.
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re: Attaching a Volume with Lucid & Mercury to an Instance
I don't have much experience with EBS-boot instances yet. However, the folks at http://groups.google.com/group/ec2ubuntu will know the answer to this.
If you get an answer that works, would you mind posting/linking it here?
Hope this helps,
Greg
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Greg Coit
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Happy to
Sure, no problem. Do you have another link for this group. The one above isn't working.
Thanks
re: Happy to
Hmm, you might have to be registered for that link to work. Try going to groups.google.com and searching for ec2ubuntu?
Greg
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Greg Coit
Systems Administrator
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May be blocked
Sorry Greg, I'm having some technical problems. I will try a little later.
Attaching a snapshot to a new EBS Boot
Hello,
Here's the approach advocated by the EC2 Ubuntu Google Group:
1) Spin up a new instance of the original AMI you based your EBS instance on.
2) Stop (don't terminate) the new instance right after it starts
3) Detach and delete the auto-created volume
4) Attach your snapshot-based volume as the root device (e.g. /dev/sda1)
5) Start the instance from the stopped state