Creating a Manual Backup

Scenarios

RDS allows you to create manual backups for an available 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.

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

Billing

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

Method 1

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, locate the target DB instance and choose More > Create Backup in the Operation column.
5. 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.

   To check whether the backup has been created, you can click in the upper right corner of the page to check the DB instance status. If the DB instance status becomes Available from Backing up, the backup has been created.

6. 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 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 target DB instance.
5. 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 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.

6. 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.