Creating a Manual Backup

Scenarios

This section describes how to create a manual backup. Creating a backup for a DB instance helps ensure data can be restored if needed, ensuring data reliability.

When you delete a DB instance, its automated backups are also deleted but its manual backups are retained.

Method 1

1. Log in to the DDS console.
2. On the Instance Management page, locate an available DB instance and click Create Backup or choose More > Create Backup.
3. In the displayed dialog box, specify Backup Name and Description and click OK.
   • The manual backup name can be 4 to 64 characters long. It must start with a letter and can contain only uppercase letters, lowercase letters, digits, hyphens (-), and underscores (_).
   • The description contains a maximum of 256 characters and cannot contain the carriage return character and the following special characters: >!<"&'=

4. Check the result:
   • During the creation of a manual backup, you can query the backup status on the Backup Management or the Backups & Restorations page. The backup status is Backing up. The time it takes to complete the backup depends on the size of the job.
   • If the manual backup is successfully created, the backup status is Complete. The manual backup type is Manual and the backup method is Physical.

Method 2

1. Log in to the DDS console.
2. In the navigation pane on the left, click Backup Management.
3. On the Backup Management page, click Create Backup.
4. In the displayed dialog box, specify DB Instance Type, DB Instance Name, Backup Name and Description and click OK.
   • Only DB instances in Available status can be manually backed up.
   • The manual backup name can be 4 to 64 characters long. It must start with a letter and can contain only uppercase letters, lowercase letters, digits, hyphens (-), and underscores (_).
   • The description contains a maximum of 256 characters and cannot contain the carriage return character and the following special characters: >!<"&'=

5. Check the result:
   • During the creation of a manual backup, you can query the backup status on the Backup Management or the Backups & Restorations page. The backup status is Backing up. The time it takes to complete the backup depends on the size of the job.
   • If the manual backup is successfully created, the backup status is Complete. The manual backup type is Manual and the backup method is Physical.

Method 3

1. Log in to the DDS console.
2. On the Instance Management page, click an available DB instance.
3. In the navigation pane on the left, click Backups & Restorations.
4. On the Backups & Restorations page, click Create Backup.
5. In the displayed dialog box, specify Backup Name and Description and click OK.
   • The manual backup name can be 4 to 64 characters long. It must start with a letter and can contain only uppercase letters, lowercase letters, digits, hyphens (-), and underscores (_).
   • The description contains a maximum of 256 characters and cannot contain the carriage return character and the following special characters: >!<"&'=

6. Check the result:
   • During the creation of a manual backup, you can query the backup status on the Backup Management or the Backups & Restorations page. The backup status is Backing up. The time it takes to complete the backup depends on the size of the job.
   • If the manual backup is successfully created, the backup status is Complete. The manual backup type is Manual and the backup method is Physical.