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I was wondering if there was a way to backup a windows 2008 server instance from Amazon EC2 automatically (i.e. with no user intervention).

I have a recently setup server using EC2 and would like to setup a script to automatically backup the entire server incase something goes wrong.

I also would like to automate the backup of an RDS instance if possible.

Bart De Vos
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just to answer my own question so far i have not really found a fully automated way of backing up instances from EC2, there are ways using the API to take snapshots however (looking at this currently).

with RDS there are programs out there (PremierSoft Navicat is one such example), that has the ability to script and automate backups of MYSQL databases so you can use this to backup the DB automatically.

you can also install mysql on the 2008 server accessing the RDS instance and use the MYSQL commandline tools to backup the DB that way if needed.

Kris

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