Downloading a Binlog Backup File

Scenarios

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

Downloading a Binlog Backup File

1. Log in to the management console.
2. Click in the upper left corner and select a region and a project.
3. Click Service List. Under Database, click Relational Database Service. The RDS console is displayed.
4. On the Instance Management page, click the target DB instance. The Basic Information page is displayed.
5. 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.

6. After the download is complete, you can view the binlog backups locally.