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Create AMI image of an EC2 instance store volume

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For my reference, these are the steps involved to create an AMI image backup of an Instance Store EC2 volume. 1. Install AMI tools. Might need to uncomment multiverse locations in /etc/apt/sources.list. sudo apt-get install ec2-ami-tools 2. Bundle the volume sudo ec2-bundle-vol -d /tmp -k /mycerts/ec2key.pem –cert /mycerts/cert-xxxxxxxxx.pem -u AWS_ACCOUNT_NUMBER -a -e /tmp -r i386 [...]

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Installing Python MySQLdb on OS X Lion

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Tonight I tried installing a Python MySQLdb module, but when I ran the setup I got the following error: sh: mysql_config: command not found Traceback (most recent call last): File “setup.py”, line 15, in metadata, options = get_config() File “/Users/markotomic/MySQL-python-1.2.3/setup_posix.py”, line 43, in get_config libs = mysql_config(“libs_r”) File “/Users/markotomic/MySQL-python-1.2.3/setup_posix.py”, line 24, in mysql_config raise EnvironmentError(“%s [...]

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