Restoring from a backup into a new cache - Amazon ElastiCache
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Restoring from a backup into a new cache

You can restore an existing backup into a new serverless cache.

To restore a backup to a serverless cache (console)

  1. Sign in to the Amazon Web Services Management Console and open the ElastiCache console at https://console.amazonaws.cn/elasticache/.

  2. From the navigation pane, choose Backups.

  3. In the list of backups, choose the box to the left of the backup name that you want to restore.

  4. Choose Actions and then Restore.

  5. Enter a name for the new serverless cache, and an optional description.

  6. Click Create to create your new cache and import data from your backup.

To restore a backup to a new serverless cache (Amazon CLI)

The following Amazon CLI example creates a new cache using create-serverless-cache and imports data from a backup.

For Linux, OS X, or Unix:

For Windows:

aws elasticache create-serverless-cache \
    --serverless-cache-name CacheName \
    --engine memcached
    --snapshot-arns-to-restore Snapshot-ARN

For Windows:

aws elasticache create-serverless-cache ^
    --serverless-cache-name CacheName ^
    --engine memcached ^
    --snapshot-arns-to-restore Snapshot-ARN