Easily turn off the auto backups/snapshots for RDS?

Question

During our migrations we take the RDS instance out of multi AZ so we can send differential backups to it.

We send a an initial backup and then hit it with a few differentials then during the actual cut over we just have a small differential to do rather than a full backup and restore, at the end of the migration we turn multi AZ back on. Often we are waiting while RDS performs an automatic backup do to the rapid amount of change.

Is there a process or mechanism to delay this backup?

Accepted Answer

Hello,

You can disable automated backups for Amazon RDS instances through the AWS Console using the instructions found on the Working with backups portion of the [Amazon RDS documentation](https://docs.aws.amazon.com/AmazonRDS/latest/UserGuide/USER_WorkingWithAutomatedBackups.html):

To disable automated backups immediately
1. Sign in to the AWS Management Console and open the Amazon RDS console at https://console.aws.amazon.com/rds/.
2. In the navigation pane, choose Databases, and then choose the DB instance or Multi-AZ DB cluster that you want to modify.
3. Choose Modify.
4. For Backup retention period, choose 0 days.
5. Choose Continue.
6. Choose Apply immediately.
7. Choose Modify DB instance or Modify cluster to save your changes and disable automated backups.

Easily turn off the auto backups/snapshots for RDS?

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