Creating Consistent EBS Snapshots with MySQL and XFS on EC2 · Alestic.com - A Personal AWS Blog by Eric HammondIn the article Running MySQL on Amazon EC2 with Elastic Block Store I describe the principles involved in using EBS on EC2. Though originally published in 2008, it is still relevant today and is worth reviewing to get context for this article. In the above tutorial, I included a sample script which followed the basic instructions in the article to initiate EBS snapshots of an XFS file system conta
