Creating a Manual Backup for a FlexusRDS Instance

Scenarios

FlexusRDS allows you to create manual backups for an available DB instance. You can use these backups to restore data.

Constraints

• You can create manual backups only when your account balance is no less than $0 USD.

• Unsubscribing from a DB instance will delete its automated and manual backups.
• The system verifies the connection to the DB instance when starting a full backup task. If either of the following conditions is met, the verification fails and a retry is automatically performed. If the retry fails, the backup will fail.
  • DDL operations are being performed on the DB instance.
  • The backup lock failed to be obtained from the DB instance.

Billing

Backups are saved as packages in OBS buckets. For the billing details, see How Is FlexusRDS Backup Data Billed?

Procedure

1. In the instance list, click the target instance name.
2. Click Backups & Restorations and then click Create Backup.
3. In the displayed dialog box, enter a backup name and description, and click OK.
   Figure 1 Creating a backup
   
   • 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.

4. View and manage the created backup on the Backups & Restorations page.