Creating user-initiated backups - Amazon FSx for Windows File Server
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Creating user-initiated backups

The following procedure describes how to create a user-initiated backup of an existing file system in the Amazon FSx console.

To create a user-initiated file system backup

  1. Open the Amazon FSx console at https://console.amazonaws.cn/fsx/.

  2. From the console dashboard, choose the name of the file system that you want to back up.

  3. From Actions, choose Create backup.

  4. In the Create backup dialog box that opens, provide a name for your backup. Backup names can be a maximum of 256 Unicode characters, including letters, white space, numbers, and the special characters . + - = _ : /

  5. Choose Create backup.

You have now created your file system backup. You can find a table of all your backups in the Amazon FSx console by choosing Backups in the left side navigation. Your new user-initiated backup has the type USER_INITIATED, and its status is CREATING until it becomes AVAILABLE. For more information, see Working with user-initiated backups.