Updated on 2025-06-24 GMT+08:00

Stopping a Backup

Scenarios

You can stop a backup that is being created and then delete it.

Constraints

  • Only automated and manual backups that are being created can be stopped.
  • After a backup is stopped, it will not be billed and can be deleted.
  • A backup that is being replicated or a CBR snapshot-based backup that is being created cannot be stopped.
  • This function can only be used when there is much data to be backed up and creating the backup takes too long.
  • You are advised not to stop the first automated backup after an instance is changed or restored. Forcibly stopping that backup may cause incremental and differential backups between the current time and the next automated full backup to fail, and point-in-time recovery (PITR) may be unavailable. Do not stop that backup unless absolutely necessary.

Procedure

  1. Log in to the management console.
  2. Click in the upper left corner and select a region.
  3. Click in the upper left corner of the page and choose Databases > Relational Database Service.
  4. On the Instances page, click the DB instance name.
  5. In the navigation pane, choose Backups & Restorations and click Stop Backup.
  6. In the displayed dialog box, click OK to stop the backup of the current instance.

    After the backup is stopped, its status changes to Stopped and you can delete it.