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I wonder how long it takes to back up a running virtual machine of, say, 2gb of ram and 10gb disk? At 1gb ethernet that would be over a minute best case, and th
by reitzensteinm 19y ago
I wonder how long it takes to back up a running virtual machine of, say, 2gb of ram and 10gb disk? At 1gb ethernet that would be over a minute best case, and the VM image would (presumbly?) have to stall while the copy takes place. So unfortunately running a single machine and doing hourly backups would probably be impossible, which is a shame - that would be amazing.
Great news, though!
- smhinsey 19y agothis doesn't really have anything to do with backing up ram or necessarily the instance's main disks - it's a volume you can mount and format to your taste, and this volume is now available to multiple instances and can be snapshotted into S3 on-demand.
- reitzensteinm 19y agoAh, I see. Thanks for clearing that up.
- LogicHoleFlaw 19y agoThe way the article describes it it's basically made available as a linux block storage device - you could set up software raid or access it as a raw device without a filesystem. Very nifty. I wonder how it plays with ZFS.
- PStamatiou 19y agoinstance to s3/instance speed is 250MB/sec so just under a minute for your 12 gig scenario iirc.. but yeah this is a mountable volume as others have mentioned