I have an EBS volume mounted as secondary volume on an EC2 .
I want to back up data on the C drive (WEB application user document attachements ) of the EC2 instance :
1) Run a regular windows server backups of the C drive content (some data) and these backup are to be stored on the EBS volume
OR
2) Relocated the data subject to backup on the EBS volume and using AWS EC2 feature take a regular snapshot of the data .
Note that the web application has the feature where a user can attach some documents tied to his account . And i have in my app.properties file an option to change the location of the user attachements .
Do you know which one is better than the other (a part from the cost )