Backup Option/Backup Plan -
Backup Vault - The backup copy is stored in secure place is called Backup vault.
Retention period - For how many days or months you want to store the backup copy is called Retention period.
Backup Types
On Demand backup - Whenever you want, you can take backup
Backup Plan - It is scheduled backup e.g Every Saturday - 10 AM
On Demand backup
• Steps to create On demand backup
- AWS backup - Dashboard - Create on-demand backup
- Resources type - Instance id of resource
- Retention period as per your requirement in days , weeks or months
- Backup vault to store backup copy Create new Backup vault, if you have already created use that.
- Create backup vault - give name & Encryption key null
- You can check backup in Backup vault as shown
- Now select your backup vault you created
- Click on Create on-demand backup
- Backup jobs are shown in Protected resources
• You can restore your back up an create new ec2 machine using that backup
-Steps to restore backup
- Select - Actions- Restore
- Network settings- Instance type as per need - VPC/ Subnet - click on restore
- To check all the backups in the backup vault
Backup Plan
It is mostly used second type to create backup which provides automation
- Dashboard-Create backup plan
- Build new plan - name
- Schedule - name - select vault(if not created,create one) - frequency (day,week or month)
- Start time - start within- complete within. Here it will start within 1hr and complete within 3hrs
- Retention period- how many days, weeks or months you need to store copy
- Copy destination (optional) - click create backup
- Add resources on which backup is made eg ec2
- Here we give instance id for specific resources
- Backup plan is created successfully and can be seen in Resources assignment
Q. How to delete backup copies?
To delete backup you need to delete assignment first then backup plan.