Safe to Use an Amazon EBS Volume While Snapshot in Progress?

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Published on 2009-10-28T12:39:52Z Indexed on 2013/10/21 21:55 UTC
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Is it safe to use an EBS volumne while a snapshot is being created?

I've currently got a 100Gb EBS volume mounted. I am in the process of snapshotting it. Goodness it's slow!! It's going to end up taking more than 45 minutes to snapshot.

My question : Is the EBS volume already copied and just being saved somewhere? Or, is the snapshot actively copying from my mounted volume right now?

Basically, if I start using it before the snapshot completes, am I hosed?

I just can't believe it takes this long to copy. There really isn't even 100GB in use. It's more like 25Gb.

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