[cs615asa] EC2_BACKUP_FLAGS_AWS question

[wzhang32]

On 04/10/2015 4:53 PM, Jan Schaumann wrote:
> wzhang32 <wzhang32 at stevens.edu> wrote:
>>   As it's said before, we can create a suitable instance for backup 
>> ec2
>> volume. However, the "--key-name" and "--security-group" is a 
>> mandatory
> 
> I don't believe they should be mandatory.  I believe that AWS can be
> configured to use defaults if no keypair or security-group is given:
> 
> $ aws ec2 run-instances --image-id ami-3b361952 >/dev/null 2>&1
> $ echo $?
> 0
> 
> -Jan
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But if we need ssh to the instance we create, we need --key-name and 
--security-group. In our case, shouldn't we ssh to the instance, mount 
the volume and back up the specified directory?
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