cloning an amazon machine instance -
i have 2 amazon machine instances running.both of them m3.xlarge instances. 1 of them has right software , configuration want use.i want create snapshot of ebs volume machine , use ebs volue boot second machine from. can , expect work without shutting down first machine.
it described in aws documentation...
"you can take snapshot of attached volume in use. however, snapshots capture data has been written amazon ebs volume @ time snapshot command issued. might exclude data has been cached applications or operating system. if can pause file writes volume long enough take snapshot, snapshot should complete. however, if can't pause file writes volume, should unmount volume within instance, issue snapshot command, , remount volume ensure consistent , complete snapshot.
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