Abstract: This article contains intructions on running Debian Linux (etch) on Amazon EC2 with Elastic Drive that links instance to S3 storage.
EC2 CONTROL TOOLS
- run instance of following AMI ami-7cfd1815, get public DNS address
- run instance of following AMI ami-7cfd1815, get public DNS address
- ssh in to that public DNS address, using following credentials: username khaz / password khaz / superuser khazrocks99
EC2 INSTANCE CONFIGURATION
- change root passwd, delete user khaz
- setup environment up to your taste, if you want
CONFIGURING APPLICATION
- edit /etc/elasticdrive.ini
- add credentials in [drives] section (after 's3://S3ACCESSKEY:S3SECRETKEY')
- create bucket name (maybe instance id + number)
- specify disk size by setting '&blocks=' (default setting of 65536 blocks gives you 268Mb)
RUNNING APPLICATION
- /etc/init.d/elasticdrive_khaz start
- application should automatically startup on reboot
EC2 INSTANCE CONFIGURATION
- change root passwd, delete user khaz
- setup environment up to your taste, if you want
CONFIGURING APPLICATION
- edit /etc/elasticdrive.ini
- add credentials in [drives] section (after 's3://S3ACCESSKEY:S3SECRETKEY')
- create bucket name (maybe instance id + number)
- specify disk size by setting '&blocks=' (default setting of 65536 blocks gives you 268Mb)
RUNNING APPLICATION
- /etc/init.d/elasticdrive_khaz start
- application should automatically startup on reboot
USING YOUR NEW FILESYSTEM
Now you can use your filesystem, that is persistent to Amazon Simple Storage (S3).
Try copy some files to /data/s3, or 'umount /fuse2/ed0' (if you have lots of data, this would require more time, well, up to 30 minutes), 'ls -al /data/s3' should show nothing when unmounted, reboot, 'ls -al /data/s3'.
EVACUATION OF DATA FROM EC2 INSTANCE
This basically covers unmounting your current filesystem and transferring it's state to external persistence source. Initially I tested creation of 24Gb, placing different size files and unmounting. First umount took about 20 minutes or so, all subsequent worked in a less than minute.
Now you can use your filesystem, that is persistent to Amazon Simple Storage (S3).
Try copy some files to /data/s3, or 'umount /fuse2/ed0' (if you have lots of data, this would require more time, well, up to 30 minutes), 'ls -al /data/s3' should show nothing when unmounted, reboot, 'ls -al /data/s3'.
EVACUATION OF DATA FROM EC2 INSTANCE
This basically covers unmounting your current filesystem and transferring it's state to external persistence source. Initially I tested creation of 24Gb, placing different size files and unmounting. First umount took about 20 minutes or so, all subsequent worked in a less than minute.
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