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So dude is mad because he didn’t have a redundancy plan? You can take snapshots of EBS volumes which backs everything up to S3. They even tell you that EBS volu
by lovetocode 7y ago
So dude is mad because he didn’t have a redundancy plan? You can take snapshots of EBS volumes which backs everything up to S3. They even tell you that EBS volumes can fail in the documentation. But blaming someone else is easier I guess...
- sheeshkebab 7y agoAWS need to add a button/option to ebs to have volumes be automatically backed up by aws itself. Without this few will do it or are even aware that it’s possible to do. It doesn’t help that ebs backup takes forever, especially initially.
- rad_gruchalski 7y agoAh, and the storm of "my AWS bill has skyrocketed, why is AWS doing this..." incoming in 1 week after such thing. No, thanks. RTFM.
- ReidZB 7y agoThey did add that: https://aws.amazon.com/backup/ https://aws.amazon.com/backup/
- ben509 7y agoHow do you do restore in those scenarios? You have a whole mess of snapshots of data that's in various stages of being wrong. I'd rather just put up with the agony of RDS to get a point in time restore and treat my instances' data as volatile.
- inopinatus 7y agoIn followup, turns out they didn't even lose data as claimed. It was a case of either lying or incompetence. Hunt didn't like that and blocked me for calling it out.
- ti_ranger 7y ago> In followup, turns out they didn't even lose data as claimed. Link?