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by: pavelvasev
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Backing up EBS Snapshots to an S3 Bucket?
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Aug 24, 2008 6:48 PM PDT
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I see that the EBS snapshots are stored using S3, however it does not seem that they are stored within a bucket.. I would like to be able to backup snapshots beyond the initial saving of the snapshot and am wondering if there is any way to get a snapshot into an S3 bucket and if it could then be put back for use as a snapshot later on.
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Re: Backing up EBS Snapshots to an S3 Bucket?
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Aug 24, 2008 10:44 PM PDT
in response to: rickdane
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It is true that snapshots are stored in S3, but not in a user-visible bucket. Can you give me a little more information about the use case you want to enable?
Thanks.
Andrew
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Re: Backing up EBS Snapshots to an S3 Bucket?
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Aug 25, 2008 10:54 AM PDT
in response to: AndrewC@AWS
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Well, one user case is within an organization you may authorize someone to launch instances who you would not want to have full control over your EBS snapshots and they could delete them. Also, to me at least, having something backed up in just one place is almost as good as not having it backed up at all (given that anything could happen from the file becoming damaged to accidental deletion), I would be much more comfortable being able to include the EBS snapshots in a broader backup plan so I could put them into multiple s3 accounts, for example, for now it can be worked around by copying files from within an EBS volume to an s3 bucket but it would be nice to be able to backup the snapshots in a more meaningful way.
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Re: Backing up EBS Snapshots to an S3 Bucket?
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Aug 26, 2008 9:14 AM PDT
in response to: rickdane
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Thanks for the information. We will consider these use cases going forward.
Andrew
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Re: Backing up EBS Snapshots to an S3 Bucket?
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Aug 26, 2008 12:17 PM PDT
in response to: rickdane
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Another use case is the ability to keep off-sites back-ups, where one could simply download the snapshots from S3 to an external hard disk. This is a very desirable feature.
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Re: Backing up EBS Snapshots to an S3 Bucket?
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Oct 26, 2008 7:49 PM PDT
in response to: felipealbertao
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Yes my company requires external data to also be backed up internally on our servers so the ability to download an EBS snapshot from S3 would be much easier.
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Re: Backing up EBS Snapshots to an S3 Bucket?
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Jul 28, 2009 9:09 AM PDT
in response to: AndrewC@AWS
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Andrew, is there anywhere we can follow the progress of, or vote for the implementation of, this request? It should stop people (like myself) peppering the forums with comments like "me too!" or "is there any update on this?".
Also, is there any update on this? Is this likely to be a new feature any time soon? The ability to download a snapshot for backup purposes, or to attach to a local VM would be a very useful feature.
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Re: Backing up EBS Snapshots to an S3 Bucket?
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Jan 13, 2010 10:23 AM PST
in response to: rickdane
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Dear AWS Team, please create an option to download EBS snapshots. We need this to backup data of our clients to our own backup facilities. This will dramatically increase our trust that data is safe.
For now, we still considering it is unsafe because of options of disasters, hacker's intrusions, etc. When we have data in our hands, we feel safer.
Now we are using rsync for this, but it is not very comfortable because of tons of files. One file is better.
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