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Re:Why I left Heroku, and notes on my new AWS setup by riffraff on Monday May 20, 2013 @01:35PM (#5738831)
I am not sure what you mean by "You can't restore to a running instance from snapshots" cause, well, I've done it a few times.

Could you expand a bit maybe?

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Re:Why I left Heroku, and notes on my new AWS setup by toomuchtodo on Monday May 20, 2013 @02:40PM (#5739178)
My apologies. I should've said "to an existing instance."

http://docs.aws.amazon.com/AmazonRDS/latest/UserGuide/USER_R...

"You must create a DB snapshot before you can restore a DB instance from one. When you restore the DB instance, you provide the name of the DB snapshot to restore from, and then provide a name for the new DB instance that is created from the restore. You cannot restore from a DB snapshot to an existing DB instance; a new DB instance is created when you restore."

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Re:Why I left Heroku, and notes on my new AWS setup by rschmitty on Monday May 20, 2013 @01:49PM (#5738919)
I have also used their snapshots with success
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