Re: [CentOS-virt] Remove Centos from AWS marketplace

2014-03-09 Thread Stephen Harris
On Sun, Mar 09, 2014 at 11:28:07AM -0400, Digimer wrote: Would you mind elaborating on this? If a snapshot is a point-in-time image of a VM (or even normal FS), why would DB backups be at risk (assuming things like fsync are used)? I'm asking in general terms... no idea if this is

Re: [CentOS-virt] Remove Centos from AWS marketplace

2014-03-09 Thread Nico Kadel-Garcia
On Sun, Mar 9, 2014 at 11:28 AM, Digimer li...@alteeve.ca wrote: Would you mind elaborating on this? If a snapshot is a point-in-time image of a VM (or even normal FS), why would DB backups be at risk (assuming things like fsync are used)? I'm asking in general terms... no idea if this is

Re: [CentOS-virt] Remove Centos from AWS marketplace

2014-03-09 Thread Digimer
On 09/03/14 11:52 AM, Nico Kadel-Garcia wrote: On Sun, Mar 9, 2014 at 11:28 AM, Digimer li...@alteeve.ca wrote: Would you mind elaborating on this? If a snapshot is a point-in-time image of a VM (or even normal FS), why would DB backups be at risk (assuming things like fsync are used)? I'm

Re: [CentOS-virt] Remove Centos from AWS marketplace

2014-03-09 Thread Digimer
On 09/03/14 11:43 AM, Stephen Harris wrote: On Sun, Mar 09, 2014 at 11:28:07AM -0400, Digimer wrote: Would you mind elaborating on this? If a snapshot is a point-in-time image of a VM (or even normal FS), why would DB backups be at risk (assuming things like fsync are used)? I'm asking in

[CentOS-virt] Remove Centos from AWS marketplace

2014-03-08 Thread JacobV
https://forums.aws.amazon.com/thread.jspa?messageID=481859#481859 https://forums.aws.amazon.com/thread.jspa?messageID=453572#453572 This is a timebomb waiting to strike so many people who like do daily snapshot backups and keep them for few weeks and not realizing their snapshots are useless if