Issue
I need to make a test environment of a current running system.
In order to do this, I'm thinking of making a copy of the instance but, does the cron schedules will be copied as well? Or do I need to set up all the server settings and cron jobs?
Solution
The easiest way to "make a copy of an instance" is to create an Amazon Machine Images (AMI).
The AMI takes a copy of all disks attached to the instance.
Then, you can launch a new instance from the AMI and the new instance will have an exact copy of the disks from the original instance. This includes the operating system, applications, data, cron settings, etc because the disk was totally copied.
See: Create an Amazon EBS-backed Linux AMI - Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud
Answered By - John Rotenstein Answer Checked By - Senaida (WPSolving Volunteer)
