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		blantonl on May 10, 2010 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: "Amazon EBS sucks. I just lost all my data" there is not, however it is really easy to write a script to freeze the volume and execute a snapshot. # xfs_freeze -f /data # ec2-create-snapshot vol-###### # xfs_freeze -u /data

spudlyo on May 10, 2010 | [–]

So that's an xfs feature, but is is this really necessary on a journaling filesystem? I guess for ext3 I'd replace ext_freeze with sync.

mattew on May 10, 2010 | [–]

One of my clients has 2 windows instances. I will need to look at the windows tools to see if there is something equivalent there.

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