You have a server with a 5O0GB Amazon EBS data volume. The volume is 80% full. You need to back up the
volume at regular intervals and be able to re-create the volume in a new Availability Zone in the shortest time
possible. All applications using the volume can be paused for a period of a few minutes with no discernible
user impact.
Which of the following backup methods will best fulfill your requirements?
A.
Take periodic snapshots of the EBS volume
B.
Use a third party Incremental backup application to back up to Amazon Glacier
C.
Periodically back up all data to a single compressed archive and archive to Amazon S3 using a parallelized
multi-part upload
D.
Create another EBS volume in the second Availability Zone attach it to the Amazon EC2 instance, and use a
disk manager to mirror me two disks
Explanation:
http://docs.aws.amazon.com/AWSEC2/latest/UserGuide/ebs-creating-snapshot.html