# Backup creation, maintenance, and restore A backup, or *recovery point*, represents the content of a resource, such as an Amazon Elastic Block Store (Amazon EBS) volume or Amazon DynamoDB table, at a specified time. Recovery point is a term that refers generally to the different backups in Amazon services, such as Amazon EBS snapshots and DynamoDB backups. The terms *recovery point* and *backup* are used interchangeably. Amazon Backup saves recovery points in backup vaults, which you can organize according to your business needs. For example, you can save a set of resources that contain financial information for fiscal year 2020. When you need to recover a resource, you can use either the Amazon Backup console or the Amazon Command Line Interface (Amazon CLI) to find and recover the resource you need. Each recovery point has a unique ID. The unique ID is at the end of the recovery point's Amazon Resource Name (ARN). For examples of recovery point ARNs and unique IDs, see the table in [Resources and operations](access-control.md#access-control-resources). **Important** To avoid additional charges, configure your retention policy with a warm storage duration of **at least one week**. For more information, see [Metering, costs, and billing for Amazon BackupMetering, costs, and billing](metering-and-billing.md). The following sections provide an overview of the basic backup management tasks in Amazon Backup. **Topics** + [Creating an on-demand backup using Amazon Backup](recov-point-create-on-demand-backup.md) + [Continuous backups and point-in-time recovery (PITR)](point-in-time-recovery.md) + [Backup creation by resource type](creating-a-backup.md) + [Backup and tag copy](recov-point-create-a-copy.md) + [Backup deletion](deleting-backups.md) + [Backup and tag edits](editing-a-backup.md) + [Backup search](backup-search.md) + [Backup tiering](backup-tiering.md) + [Restore a backup by resource type](restoring-a-backup.md) + [Restore testing](restore-testing.md) + [Stop a backup job](stopping-a-backup-job.md) + [View existing backups](listing-backups.md)