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Thanks brb6708, nice script but this isn't a full image backup. I may use it though in conjunction with the S3 solution.<br />
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Thanks fluk3d, I've seen these solutions but find them tricky and a little cumbersome.<br />
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AWS would do well to create a backup service...
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Thanks brb6708, nice script but this isn't a full image backup. I may use it though in conjunction with the S3 solution.

Thanks fluk3d, I've seen these solutions but find them tricky and a little cumbersome.

AWS would do well to create a backup service...

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it's up to you, which command you use. &nbsp;just replace tar commands by suitable s3 commands.....
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it's up to you, which command you use.  just replace tar commands by suitable s3 commands.....

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I have one LAMP Linux box in Europe on EC2. I would like to be able to take Weekly and Nightly diff backups that overwrite themselves and be able to restore it if any disaster occurs. 2 backups files (weekly and a daily image)
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I have one LAMP Linux box in Europe on EC2. I would like to be able to take Weekly and Nightly diff backups that overwrite themselves and be able to restore it if any disaster occurs. 2 backups files (weekly and a daily image)

How do I create backups and restore a linux server on AWS EC2?

Linux is a UNIX-like open source operating system with hundreds of distinct distributions, including: Fedora, openSUSE, Ubuntu, Debian, Slackware, Gentoo, CentOS, and Arch Linux. Linux is generally associated with web and database servers, but has become popular in many niche industries and applications.

Linux

Cloud computing, also known as on-demand computing, is a kind of Internet-based computing where shared resources and information are provided to computers and other devices. It is a model for enabling ubiquitous, on-demand access to a shared pool of configurable computing resources. Cloud computing and storage solutions provide users and enterprises with various capabilities to store and process their data in third-party data centers, relying on sharing of resources to achieve coherence and economies of scale.

Cloud Computing

The term "Backup" means the methods and processes involved to copy computer data (system data as well as application data) to media other than the ones where the data originally live (disk, tape, optical, cloud). "Restore" in turn means the methods and processes involved in data recovery, i. e., bringing back copied computer data to their original location. Backup/Restore primarily serves as a means of protection against data loss, be it due to disaster, corruption or sabotage. It can also be used for recovering data from an earlier point in time and even for cloning machines or applications. There is a wide variety of backup/restore software available, from expensive commercial products to free or open source tools.

Storage Software

Amazon Web Services (AWS), is a collection of remote computing services, also called web services, that make up a cloud-computing platform  operated from 11 geographical regions across the world. The most central and well-known of these services include Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud, also known as "EC2", and Amazon Simple Storage Service, also known as "S3". Other services include Elastic MapReduce (EMR), Route 53 (a DNS web service),  provides a highly available and scalable Domain Name System (DNS) web service, Virtual Private Cloud (VPC), storage, database, deployment and application services.