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Lingesh Kumar K Avatar Lingesh Kumar K  answered Narendran Srinivasan's question. 10 months ago

You want to automate daily backups of EBS volumes for multiple EC2 instances. How would you design this using snapshots?

Go to EC2 Console → Lifecycle Manager.

Create a Snapshot Lifecycle Policy.

Select Resource type = Volume.

Use Tags to identify the EBS volumes you want backed up (e.g., Backup=true).

Define schedule (e.g., every 24 hours).

Set retention rules (e.g., keep last 7 snapshots).

Policy automatically creates and deletes snapshots daily.
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Elizabeth Rosalind Rebecca R
Elizabeth Rosalind Rebecca R 6 days ago
The created AMI will get deleted permanently.
Elizabeth Rosalind Rebecca R
Elizabeth Rosalind Rebecca R 8 days ago
Formatting the volume will not affect the snapshot
vignesh
vignesh 9 days ago
An encrypted EBS volume always produces an encrypted snapshot
vignesh
vignesh 9 days ago
you cannot directly attach an EBS snapshot to an EC2 instance
Jerin Ajay
Jerin Ajay 21 days ago
If you’ve lost the private key, you can still recover data using the EBS volume method: Steps: Stop the affected EC2 instance Go to EC2 → V..
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