RDS Backups & RDS Restores

RDS Backups

• RDS creates and saves automated backups of your DB instance during the backup window of your DB instance.

• RDS creates a storage volume snapshot of your DB instance, backing up the entire DB instance and not just individual databases.

• RDS saves the automated backups of your DB instance according to the backup retention period that you specify.

  • If necessary, you can recover your database to any point in time during the backup retention period.

• You can also back up your DB instance manually, by manually creating a DB snapshot.

  • Unlike automated backups, manual snapshots aren't subject to the backup retention period.

  • Snapshots don't expire.

• The first snapshot of a DB instance contains the data for the full DB instance.

  • Subsequent snapshots of the same DB instance are incremental.

• After you create a DB instance, you can modify the backup retention period.

  • You can set the backup retention period to between 0 and 35 days.

  • Setting the backup retention period to 0 disables automated backups.