Following the significant disruption of EBS volumes in April, the importance of backups was once again brought to the forefront. Amazon’s method of generating EBS backups is the ‘snapshot’ – a differential backup stored in S3. While Amazon provides tools … Continue reading
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 … Continue reading
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 … Continue reading