Tag Archives: EBS

EC2 Guide: Backing up and clean up (7 / 7)

February 28, 2011   Paul Norman   2 Comments

The final stage in the guide concerns backing up the EBS volumes nightly so as to avoid disasters! It also covers keeping the number of these generated under control and rotating any moved logs.

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EC2 Guide: Software Configuration from existing EBS volumes (6b / 7)

February 28, 2011   Paul Norman   No comments

Continuing the upgrade path started earlier this page guides you through the steps required to configure only the software not on the EBS volumes.

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EC2 Guide: Attach existing EBS volumes (5b / 7)

February 28, 2011   Paul Norman   No comments

To make this guide complete I have included an upgrade path should you have previously followed it and wish to re-attach your existing, configured EBS volumes to a new server instance.

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EC2 Guide: Create and attach new EBS volumes (5a / 7)

February 28, 2011   Paul Norman   2 Comments

To allow our server to be upgradable we are going to separate out various parts of our system onto 3 separate EBS volumes so that they could be disconnected and re-attached to another machine very quickly should we want to add other servers.

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EC2 Guide: Preparing required tools (2 / 7)

February 28, 2011   Paul Norman   No comments

This guide will hopefully allow you to prepare all the tools you will need to create and Amazon EC2 EBS backed Ubuntu 10.04 instance using Elasticfox.

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EC2 Guide: Hosting a website on Amazon EC2 (1 / 7)

February 28, 2011   Paul Norman   5 Comments

This guide will hopefully allow anyone to create an Ubuntu 10.04 EBS backed Amazon EC2 instance and guide a relative novice through all the steps required to configure a production server running in the cloud environment.

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