I have few servers running on Amazon’s EC2 and I would like to backup the image (create AMI) every week (replacing the old image).
Is there any way to automate this?
I have few servers running on Amazon’s EC2 and I would like to backup
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I have few servers running on Amazon’s EC2 and I would like to backup the image (create AMI) every week (replacing the old image).
Is there any way to automate this?
You should be able to use the command line tools to create an ami. Something like
ec2-create-image -n "<image name here>" <your instancId here>. Put that in a cron entry that is scheduled weekly and you are done. You should be able to use the answer to this question to figure out what your instance id is programatically.