Protecting RDS Resources

With Veeam Backup for AWS, you can perform the following operations to protect RDS resources:

Create cloud-native snapshots of RDS resources (DB instances and Amazon Aurora DB clusters) and replicate these snapshots to any AWS Region within any AWS account.

A cloud-native snapshot of a DB instance includes a storage volume snapshot of the instance. Snapshots of DB instances (also referred to as DB snapshots) are taken using native AWS capabilities.

Create image-level backups of PostgreSQL DB instances and keep them in Amazon Simple Storage Service (Amazon S3) for high availability, cost-effective and long-term storage.

An image-level backup captures the PostgreSQL databases of the processed DB instance.

To protect RDS resources, Veeam Backup for AWS runs backup policies. A backup policy is a collection of settings that define the way backup operations are performed: what data to back up, where to store backups, when to start the backup process, how to retain restore points and so on.

Veeam Backup for AWS does not install agent software inside instances to back up RDS resource data — it uses native AWS capabilities instead. During every backup session, Veeam Backup for AWS creates a cloud-native snapshot for each RDS resource added to a backup policy. The cloud-native snapshot is further used to create a snapshot replica in another AWS Region or another AWS account and an image-level backup of the instance. For more information on how RDS resources backup works, see RDS Backup.

How To Protect RDS Resources

To create an RDS backup policy, perform the following steps: