Creating an on-demand backup using Amazon Backup - Amazon Backup
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Creating an on-demand backup using Amazon Backup

On the Amazon Backup console, the Protected resources page lists resources that have been backed up by Amazon Backup at least once. If you’re using Amazon Backup for the first time, there aren’t any resources (such as Amazon EBS volumes or Amazon RDS databases) listed on this page. This is true even if a resource was assigned to a backup plan and that backup plan has not run a scheduled backup job at least once.

Note: An on-demand backup begins to back up your resource immediately. You can choose an on-demand backup if you wish to create a backup at a time other than the scheduled time defined in a backup plan. An on-demand backup can be used, for example, to test backup and functionality at any time.

On-demand backups cannot be used with point-in-time restore (PITR) since an on-demand backup preserves resources in the state they are in when the backup is taken, whereas PITR uses continuous backups which record changes over a period of time.

Considerations

  • If the Amazon Backup default role is not present in your account, one is created for you with the correct permissions.

  • When backups expire and are marked for deletion as part of your lifecycle policy, Amazon Backup deletes the backups at a randomly chosen point over the following 8 hours. This window helps ensure consistent performance.

  • For Amazon EC2 resources, Amazon Backup automatically copies existing group and individual resource tags, in addition to any tags that you add in this step.

  • Amazon Backup takes EC2 backups with "no reboot" as the default behavior. Amazon Backup currently supports resources running on Amazon EC2, and certain instance types are not supported. For more information, see Creating Windows VSS backups.

To create an on-demand backup

  1. Open the Amazon Backup console at https://console.amazonaws.cn/backup.

  2. On the dashboard, choose Create an on-demand backup. Or, in the navigation pane, choose Protected resources and then choose Create an on-demand backup.

  3. For Resource type page, choose the resource type that you want to back up. For example, choose DynamoDB for Amazon DynamoDB tables.

  4. Choose the name or ID of the resource to protect. For example, choose the name of the DynamoDB table for Amazon DynamoDB.

  5. Ensure that Create backup now is selected.

  6. If the resource type supports transition to cold storage, Cold storage is present. For more information, see the Lifecycle to cold storage column in table Feature availability by resource.

    To specify when this backup goes to cold storage, choose Move backups from warm to cold storage and then specify the time in warm storage.

  7. For Total retention period, specify the number of days. If you specified time in cold storage, the retention period is divided between warm and cold storage.

  8. Choose an existing Backup vault or create a new one. Choosing Create new Backup vault opens a new page to create a vault and then returns you to the Create on-demand backup page when you are finished.

  9. For IAM role, choose the default role or a role that you created.

  10. To assign a tag to your on-demand backup, expand Tags added to recovery points, choose Add new tag, and enter a tag key and tag value.

  11. If the resource type is EC2, Advanced backup settings is present. To take application-consistent snapshots using Windows Volume Shadow Copy Service (VSS), choose Windows VSS.

  12. Choose Create on-demand backup. This opens the Jobs page, where you can see a list of jobs and view job status.