Scenario: A frustrated employee deletes all data from an AWS account.
Valuable data: EBS volume of an EC2 machine based on Amazon's Linux AMI.
What is a simple offline backup solution for the data? rsync?
Note that automation of the backup is not part of this question.
Best Answer
Yes, rsync is the best option. I used to do rsyncing before I automated everything with py boto. You can also create another S3 account and upload there your EBS snapshots you take in AWS EC2. But frustrated employee should not know about that S3 account obviously.
As feklee pointed out there is alternative to S3 which is Amazon Glacier. It is similar to S3 but with complicated pricing structure. But if you want you can read about it in this topic:
https://stackoverflow.com/questions/14652276/backup-amazon-s3-or-glacier-lots-of-little-files