I have just run across this problem as well.

When I terminated the farm, I selected to keep the EBS volumes,
however, when the farm terminated, the volumes completely disappeared
and had to be re-created on boot.  This also happened when I did a
"synchronize to all" on the instance.  This defeats the purpose of
EBS... and really screws up the ability to keep a persistent copy of
up-to-the-minute data, which makes it impossible to keep logfiles or
run applications that change their state (like users uploading images,
etc).  I don't see anything in the logs regarding the volumes being
deleted.  The farm id in question is 959 if that helps.

Thanks,
James

On Dec 11, 2:56 pm, Kevin Baker <[email protected]> wrote:
> On Dec 11, 2008, at 3:53 PM, Kevin Baker <[email protected]> wrote:
>
>
>
>
>
> > On Dec 10, 2008, at 9:52 AM, Alex Kovalyov <[email protected]>  
> > wrote:
>
> >> Dear Kevin,
>
> >> We've spend few hours analyzing your logs and came to conclusion  
> >> that you
> >> were detaching volumes that Scalr attaches for you automatically and
> >> attaching another one manually.
> >> Is this a right conclusion?
>
> > Thank you tons for taking the time. Yes this the correct conclusion.  
> > However I am trying to setup a confit very similiar to Ken M.
>
> > I want myEBSTo automatically remount to an instance. The snapshot  
> > is fine for backups, but the goal is to use the inherant data  
> > persistance features of theEBS. This would require binding anEBS 
> > to a role and having any new instances scalr boots to a role check  
> > for orphanedEBSinstances.
>
> > I was understanding
>
> Oops, hut the send button ;)
>
> It was my understanding. From the scalr role wizard that this was  
> standard  behavior.
>
>
>
> >> If you want some particular volume to be attached, just make a  
> >> snapshot of
> >> it, and choose " Attach volume from snapshot:" onEBStab.
>
> >> On 10.12.08 17:45, "Kevin Baker" <[email protected]> wrote:
>
> >>> I will be retesting with a fresh image today, and will update this
> >>> thread.
>
> >>> On Dec 10, 2008, at 1:21 AM, Sam <[email protected]> wrote:
>
> >>>> This is worrying as my application heavily rely on the  
> >>>> application to
> >>>> attach to the already existingEBSand if it attaches newEBS
> >>>> everytime my application will fail.
> >>>> Kevin, did you recently checked this after a few problems were  
> >>>> fixed
> >>>> related toEBS?
>
> >>>> On Dec 9, 7:28 pm, Kevin Baker <[email protected]> wrote:
> >>>>> Alex,
>
> >>>>> I have had anEBSinstance attach successfully each time, however
> >>>>> it is
> >>>>> always a newEBSinstance.
>
> >>>>> It goes something like this:
>
> >>>>>   * CreateEBS
> >>>>>   * Format and attach to Instance
> >>>>>   * restart instance
> >>>>>   * newEBSis created
> >>>>>   * PreviousEBSis orphaned
>
> >>>>> So each time I have anEBS, but just not the previous one.
>
> >>>>> Alex Kovalyov wrote:
> >>>>>> We've checked your log and found all attach and mount attempts
> >>>>>> successful.
> >>>>>> Please provide more details.
>
> >>>>>> On 8 дек, 22:55, Kevin Baker <[email protected]> wrote:
>
> >>>>>>> So would this apply to anyEBSthat would have been attached on
> >>>>>>> startup?
>
> >>>>>>> I have anEBSon my MySQL instance that has not been  
> >>>>>>> automatically
> >>>>>>> reattaching on restart.
>
> >>>>>>> Alex Kovalyov wrote:
>
> >>>>>>>> Confirmed - this was a bug  on our side (fixed).
>
> >>>>>>>> We weren't checking that attachmentSet->status is 'attached'
> >>>>>>>> before
> >>>>>>>> initiating a volume mount on instance, only checked volume
> >>>>>>>> status to
> >>>>>>>> be "in-use".
>
> >>>>>>>> On 8 дек, 11:59, Sam <[email protected]> wrote:
>
> >>>>>>>>> I have anEBSstorage attached to my app instance. I have  
> >>>>>>>>> mkdir
> >>>>>>>>> fjstorage on application server and then created 2 symlinks to
> >>>>>>>>> store
> >>>>>>>>> the local files on the server. Then I terminated and
> >>>>>>>>> synchronised the
> >>>>>>>>> farm and restarted the farm. Everything worked fine. I stopped
> >>>>>>>>> the
> >>>>>>>>> farm on friday and then restarted it today.
> >>>>>>>>> Everything else is fine on the app server but the /fjstorage
> >>>>>>>>> directory
> >>>>>>>>> whereEBSis to be mounted does not exist.
> >>>>>>>>> My settings forEBSin the app server role was to create 10GB
> >>>>>>>>> storage
> >>>>>>>>> and attach it automatically to /fjstorage directory on the app
> >>>>>>>>> server.
> >>>>>>>>> I had similar problem before which I was told that they had
> >>>>>>>>> fixed it.
> >>>>>>>>> This is again happening.
> >>>>>>>>> Could you please help urgently as we are going to put an
> >>>>>>>>> application
> >>>>>>>>> live this week and this sort of problem withEBSstorage
> >>>>>>>>> defnitely
> >>>>>>>>> won't help.

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