Automatic Elastic Block snapshots with a cron job
http://www.floydprice.com/2009/10/automatic-elastic-block-snapshots-with-a-cron-job/
Amazon EC2 really is amazing, and the Elastic Block storage is pretty darn good too, however I wish you could automate the snapshot process form the EC2 console.
It is however pretty easy to do yourself using a simple cron job.
Before you start make sure you have a JRE:
