Comments on: Amazon EC2 with rock solid persistent storage http://mohanjith.net/blog/2008/02/amazon-ec2-with-rock-solid-persistent.html MOHA blogging news and thoughts... Fri, 23 Mar 2012 11:20:22 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: Allenhttp://mohanjith.net/blog/2008/02/amazon-ec2-with-rock-solid-persistent.html/comment-page-1#comment-21 Allen Wed, 06 Feb 2008 18:24:00 +0000 http://mohanjith.net/wordpress/?p=39#comment-21 You can store anything you want on PersistentFS, meaning of course, anything important that you want to keep. The easiest way to do that is to symlink directories you want to keep so they are stored under the PersistentFS mount point.<br/><br/>PersistentFS synchronizes data to S3 continuously, so it offers much better protection than hourly backups. It can also be remounted instantly (no need to reconstruct or restore your files). You can store anything you want on PersistentFS, meaning of course, anything important that you want to keep. The easiest way to do that is to symlink directories you want to keep so they are stored under the PersistentFS mount point.

PersistentFS synchronizes data to S3 continuously, so it offers much better protection than hourly backups. It can also be remounted instantly (no need to reconstruct or restore your files).

]]> By: abouthttp://mohanjith.net/blog/2008/02/amazon-ec2-with-rock-solid-persistent.html/comment-page-1#comment-19 about Mon, 04 Feb 2008 20:12:00 +0000 http://mohanjith.net/wordpress/?p=39#comment-19 Allen, just backing up the database files are not sufficient in some cases, you might have to store other files e.g. /etc/shadow. If I'm not mistaken PersistentFS is not free software, where is duplicity is free software licensed under GNU GPL. Allen, just backing up the database files are not sufficient in some cases, you might have to store other files e.g. /etc/shadow. If I’m not mistaken PersistentFS is not free software, where is duplicity is free software licensed under GNU GPL.

]]> By: Allenhttp://mohanjith.net/blog/2008/02/amazon-ec2-with-rock-solid-persistent.html/comment-page-1#comment-18 Allen Sun, 03 Feb 2008 01:29:00 +0000 http://mohanjith.net/wordpress/?p=39#comment-18 You could store your database files on <a HREF="http://www.PersistentFS.com" REL="nofollow">PersistentFS</a> and get continuous synchronization to S3. See <a HREF="http://developer.amazonwebservices.com/connect/thread.jspa?messageID=77370#77370" REL="nofollow">this post</a> on the AWS Forums. You could store your database files on PersistentFS and get continuous synchronization to S3. See this post on the AWS Forums.

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