Downloading a Binlog Backup File

Scenarios

RDS for MariaDB allows you to download binlog backup files to your client computer and use them to restore DB instances if necessary.

The completion time displayed in the binlog backup file list indicates the time when the last transaction was committed.

Binlog backups on the management console are named in the format of "binlog name+timestamp" and use the row-based logging.

Binlog backup files of frozen DB instances cannot be downloaded.

Downloading a Binlog Backup File

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. The Basic Information page is displayed.
4. In the navigation pane on the left, choose Backups & Restorations. On the Binlog Backups page, locate the target backup to be downloaded and click Download in the Operation column.

   You can also select the binlog backups to be downloaded and click Download above the list.

5. After the download is complete, you can view the binlog backups on your computer.