Viewing Available Resources

After you create a backup policy to protect a specific type of AWS resources (EC2 instances, RDS resources, DynamoDB tables or EFS file systems), Veeam Backup for AWS rescans AWS Regions specified in the policy settings and populates the resource list on the Resources tab with all resources of that type residing in these regions. If an AWS Region is no longer specified in any configured backup policy, Veeam Backup for AWS removes all resources residing in the region from the list of available resources.

The Resources tab displays AWS resources that can be protected by Veeam Backup for AWS. Each resource is represented with a set of properties, such as:

• Instance or Name — the name of the resource.
• Instance ID or File System ID — the unique identification number of the resource.
• Instance Size, Source Size or Table Size — the size of the resource storage.

• AWS Account — the AWS account where the resource belongs.
• Region — the AWS Region where the resource resides.
• Last Backup — the date and time of the latest restore point created for the resource (if any).
• Backup Policy — the name of the backup policy that protects the resource (if any).
• Restore Points— the number of restore points created for the resource (if any).
• Destination — types of restore points created for the EC2 or RDS resource (if any).

On the Resources tab you can also perform the following actions:

• Manually create cloud-native snapshots of RDS and EC2 instances, as well as backups of DynamoDB tables and EFS file systems. For more information, see sections Creating EC2 Snapshots Manually, Creating RDS Snapshots Manually, Creating DynamoDB Backups Manually and Creating EFS Backups Manually.
• Add resources to existing backup policies. For more information, see Adding Resources to Policy.
• Restore entire EC2 instances, EBS volumes attached to EC2 instances, as well as individual files and folders of EC2 instances.

To do that, select an EC2 instance, click the link in the Restore Points column, select the necessary restore point and click Restore > Instance Restore, Volume Restore or File-level Recovery in the Available Restore Points window. Then, complete the wizard as described in section Performing Entire EC2 Instance Restore, Performing Volume-Level Restore or Performing File-Level Recovery.

• Restore entire DB instances, specific DB instance databases and Aurora DB clusters.

To do that, select the RDS resource, click the link in the Restore Points column, select the necessary restore point and click Restore > Instance Restore or Database Restore in the Available Restore Points window. Then, complete the wizard as described in section Performing RDS Instance Restore or Performing Database Restore.

• Restore DynamoDB tables.

To do that, select the DynamoDB table, click the link in the Restore Points column, select the necessary restore point and click Restore in the Available Restore Points window. Then, complete the wizard as described in section DynamoDB Restore Using Web UI.

• Restore entire Amazon EFS file systems, as well as individual files and folders stored in file systems.

To do that, select the EFS file system, click the link in the Restore Points column, select the necessary restore point and click Restore > Entire EFS or File-level Recovery in the Available Restore Points window. Then, complete the wizard as described in section Performing Entire File System Restore or Performing File-Level Recovery.

• Remove all cloud-native snapshots created for EC2 instances, DB instances or Aurora DB clusters manually, as well as remove all backups created for EFS file systems and DynamoDB tables manually.

To do that, select the necessary resource, click the link in the Restore Points column. Then, select the necessary manual snapshot or backup you want to remove in the Available Restore Points window, and click Remove Manual Snapshot or Remove Manual Backup.

• Retrieve archived data from EC2 backups that are stored in repositories of the S3 Glacier Flexible Retrieval or S3 Glacier Deep Archive storage class.

To do that, select the resource, click the link in the Restore Points column, select a restore point that contains the archived data you want to retrieve and click Retrieve Backup in the Available Restore Points window. Then, complete the wizard as described in section Retrieving EC2 Data From Archive.

To extend time for which you want to keep the retrieved data available for restore operations, select the restore point that contains the retrieved data in the Available Restore Points window, and click Extend Availability. In the Extend Data Availability Period window, specify the number of days for which you want to keep the data available for restore operations, and click Extend.