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Bundling EC2 Instances and EBS

Posted on September 24, 2008 by eric

As I mentioned in the last post, I’m working on hosting email accounts on Amazon EC2. I am experimenting with mounting /var on an EBS volume so my database, logs, etc. will survive the failure of an instance.  The idea is … Continue reading →

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Amazon EBS Snapshot Backups with LVM and XFS

Posted on September 22, 2008 by eric

I’m working on setting up a server to host email accounts on Amazon EC2 using the newly released Elastic Block Storage.  My benchmarking has shown XFS to be better than ReiserFS for this task – and presumably EXT3, but I ran … Continue reading →

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