A recent topic of conversation in the office has been backups. Three of us have experienced catastrophic hardware failures on our local development machines (i.e. our laptops). Thankfully, we are all obsessive about backups so we all got back up and running in no time. If you aren’t backing up your local system, then you need to read Sean’s excellent post on Selecting Cloud Backup Software.

But what about your servers? And more specifically, what if you’re running an Amazon EC2 instance?

Like all things AWS, Amazon has many options for creating backups. If you setup your EC2 instance to use Elastic Block Storage (EBS), you can sim