Creating a Manual Backup

Scenarios

RDS allows you to create manual backups for a running primary DB instance. You can use these backups to restore data.

When you delete a DB instance, its automated backups are also deleted but its manual backups are retained.

Method 1

1. Log in to the management console.
2. Click in the upper left corner of the page and choose Databases > Relational Database Service.
3. On the Instances page, locate the target DB instance and choose More > Create Backup in the Operation column.
4. In the displayed dialog box, enter a backup name, select a target database for which to create the backup, and enter a description. Then, click OK. If you want to cancel the backup creation task, click Cancel.
   • The backup name must consist of 4 to 64 characters and start with a letter. It can contain only uppercase letters, lowercase letters, digits, hyphens (-), and underscores (_).
   • The description consists of a maximum of 256 characters and cannot contain carriage return characters or the following special characters: >!<"&'=
   • The time required for creating a manual backup depends on the amount of data.
   

   System databases are backed up by default.

5. After a manual backup has been created, you can view and manage it on the Backups page.

   Alternatively, click the target DB instance. On the Backups & Restorations page, you can view and manage the manual backups.

Method 2

1. Log in to the management console.
2. Click in the upper left corner of the page and choose Databases > Relational Database Service.
3. On the Instances page, click the target DB instance.
4. On the Backups & Restorations page, click Create Backup. In the displayed dialog box, enter a backup name, select a target database for which to create the backup, and enter a description. Then, click OK.
   • The backup name can contain 4 to 64 characters and must start with a letter. Only letters (case-sensitive), digits, hyphens (-), and underscores (_) are allowed.
   • The description consists of a maximum of 256 characters and cannot contain carriage return characters or the following special characters: >!<"&'=
   • The time required for creating a manual backup depends on the amount of data.
   

   System databases are backed up by default.

5. After a manual backup has been created, you can view and manage it on the Backups page.

   Alternatively, click the target DB instance. On the Backups & Restorations page, you can view and manage the manual backups.