Amazon EC2-S3 Transmission

Question

I wanted to backup my EC2 instance to S3. I downloaded EC2 tools from: http://developer.amazonwebservices.com/connect/entry.jspa?externalID=351 .

I set the environment variables:

EC2_HOME=<EC2 tools directory> EC2_PRIVATE_KEY=<path to private key generated after I created new X.509 certificate> EC2_CERT=<path to certificate I created in X.509 Certificate tab> JAVA_HOME=<path to java jre> 

When I run the command:

 ec2-bundle-instance -b bucket_name -p bucket_prefix -o access_key i-23084b49 -w secret_access_key 

I keep getting the message:

 Client.InvalidInstanceType: Instance i-23084b49 does not support bundling. 

Do you have any idea why?

What do you recommend as the easiest way to backup EC2 to S3?

Thanks.

Answer 1

The reason why this happens is the fact that this EC2 toolkit cannot be used to link instances of Linux. Installing the proper EC2 tools solved the problem.

Answer 2

you can always use editing, a free account offers the bundle option.