Amazon EC2: Moving an EBS volume snapshot to s3

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Kamal picture Kamal · Dec 12, 2012 · Viewed 27.5k times · Source

I am trying to create a backup and restore mechanism for my EBS volumes

I could easily create a mechanism for this by using

to take a snapshot of volume 

ec2-create-snapshot -d $description $volume

and restore 

ec2-create-volume --snapshot $snapid -z $zone

Now as per my understanding, these snapshots are still on EBS. So a better way will be to move the snapshots to S3.

So how can I move the snapshots to s3 bucket?

Answer

Mike Brant picture Mike Brant · Dec 12, 2012

EBS snapshots are stored in S3. There should not be any need to move the snapshot anywhere.

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