[cs615asa] HW6

[Jan Schaumann]

Yifang Yuan <yyuan17 at stevens.edu> wrote:

> Q1
> In order to backup, we need to create a temporary aws instance. Must it also be ami-569ed93c(NetBsd)?

No.  It doesn't matter what type of instance you use.

> The program requires ?write out the data to the raw volume?. Does below meet it:
> 
> tar cf - <dir> | ssh ec2-instance "dd of=/backup/backup.tar?  (/dev/sda is mount to /backup)

No, this is writing to a file on a filesystem.  You should write the
archive directly to the block device.

> Q2
> Do we still write what we learn in README?

Yes.

-Jan