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Copy manual or system rds snapshot to AWS Backup vault

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Is there a way to export/copy a manual RDS snapshot or System RDS snapshot, directly to AWS Backup vault?

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diogoscsdevops
asked 5 months ago257 views
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Currently AWS does not support the direct export or copying of Amazon RDS snapshots (whether manual or automated) into an AWS Backup vault. AWS Backup and Amazon RDS operate somewhat independently in terms of how their backups and snapshots are managed.

AWS Backup and Amazon RDS

AWS Backup is designed to centralize and automate the backup of data and applications across AWS services in the cloud and on-premises environments. It can manage backups of EC2 instances, EBS volumes, RDS databases, DynamoDB tables, EFS, FSx, and more.

Amazon RDS snapshots are specific to RDS and are used to backup and restore RDS database instances. These snapshots can be automated (system snapshots) or manually triggered.

Current Integration While AWS Backup can manage backups for Amazon RDS, it does not import existing RDS snapshots. Instead, AWS Backup creates its own backups of RDS databases according to a backup plan you define. This backup activity is independent of the RDS snapshot functionality and does not utilize the RDS snapshots directly.

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Oleksii Bebych
answered 5 months ago
  • ben-from-aws EXPERT
    5 months ago

    To clarify, AWS Backup will copy an existing RDS snapshots when creating a backup, see https://docs.aws.amazon.com/aws-backup/latest/devguide/rds-backup.html

    When you use AWS Backup to create a backup (recovery point) of an Amazon RDS instance, AWS Backup checks if you have previously used Amazon RDS to create an automated backup. If an automated backup exists, AWS Backup creates a copy of this snapshot (copy-db-snapshot operation)

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