Hello community!
I’m in the middle of an Amazon Cloud RDS DB instance configuration and I see these 2 backup methods:
Snapshot & Export.
What’s the best practice to go and what’s the differences?
Please for your feedback!
Nikos
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Amazon Cloud DB instance - Backup method
+13Best answer by nishas
Procedure
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From the navigation pane, go to Protect > Databases.
The Instances page appears.
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Click Add Instance, and then click Cloud DB.
The Add Cloud DB instance dialog box appears.
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From the Select vendor list, select Amazon Web Services.
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From the Database service list, select DocumentDB.
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For Backup method, select Snapshot.
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From the Cloud Account list, select the AWS cloud account to use for the instance.
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From the Plan list, select the server plan that you want to use for the backup operations.
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To filter the content that is backed up, click Edit, and then select or clear the regions to include or exclude from the backups.
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Click Add.
Snapshot : The IDA will take the snapshot of the instance and and backup will run.
Export : Under this we will be taking the native database export or dump utility to take backups.
You can also check for below document for more clarity.
https://documentation.commvault.com/2022e/expert/102905_amazon_rds.html
- Vaulter
- 37 replies
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Procedure
-
From the navigation pane, go to Protect > Databases.
The Instances page appears.
-
Click Add Instance, and then click Cloud DB.
The Add Cloud DB instance dialog box appears.
-
From the Select vendor list, select Amazon Web Services.
-
From the Database service list, select DocumentDB.
-
For Backup method, select Snapshot.
-
From the Cloud Account list, select the AWS cloud account to use for the instance.
-
From the Plan list, select the server plan that you want to use for the backup operations.
-
To filter the content that is backed up, click Edit, and then select or clear the regions to include or exclude from the backups.
-
Click Add.
Snapshot : The IDA will take the snapshot of the instance and and backup will run.
Export : Under this we will be taking the native database export or dump utility to take backups.
You can also check for below document for more clarity.
https://documentation.commvault.com/2022e/expert/102905_amazon_rds.html
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- Vaulter
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You can also check for below document for more clarity.
https://documentation.commvault.com/2022e/expert/102905_amazon_rds.html
+13Dear
Thanks for your reply!
So, snapshot backup is the preferred method to configure AWS RDS backup?
Thanks again!
- Vaulter
- 37 replies
Yes, It is preferred one
But also depends on customer to customer environment and preferences.
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