In my infinite wisdom, I decided to backup my Mailserver which is an Instance Store based AMI. It should have been a completely straight-forward task, but the reality is, nothing ever is. Somewhere along the EC2-Bundle-Vol process, the rsync process decided to go into uninterruptible sleep. Ahh the fun of EC2! rsync to the loopback(…)
Every once in a while, we have to build a server. You’ve spent the time installing and configuring everything and you want a snapshot for Posterity’s sake. Here’s how to do it quickly. This little command will simply take a snapshot of everything of importance and for the most part allow you to restore your(…)
So I decided to take the plunge into moving my mailserver from Linode to EC2 considering it made more sense after doing some math. The reality is Linode is an excellent VPS host and I still have many machines with them (and highly recommend them), but the reality is at some point, it doesn’t become(…)
