Removing RDS Backups and Snapshots

Veeam Backup for AWS applies the configured retention policy settings to automatically remove cloud-native snapshots and snapshot replicas and image-level backups created by backup policies. If necessary, you can also remove the backed-up data manually.

Important

Do not delete backup files from Amazon S3 buckets in the AWS Management Console. If some file in a backup chain is missing, you will not be able to roll back DB instance or Aurora DB cluster data to the necessary state.

In Veeam Backup for AWS, you can remove only snapshots created by the Veeam backup service. To delete AWS Snapshots (DB instance snapshots and DB cluster snapshots created in AWS), use Amazon Management Console.

To remove backed-up data manually, do the following:

Navigate to Protected Data > Databases > RDS.
Select RDS resources whose data you want to remove.
Click Remove and select either of the following options:

Snapshots > All — to remove all cloud-native snapshots and snapshot replicas created for the selected RDS resources both by backup policies and manually.
Snapshots > Manual Snapshots — to remove cloud-native snapshots created for the selected RDS resources manually.

If you want to remove only specific cloud-native snapshots, follow the instructions provided in section Removing Snapshots Created Manually.

Snapshots > Local Snapshots — to remove cloud-native snapshots created for the selected RDS resources by backup policies.
Snapshots > Replica — to remove snapshot replicas created for the selected RDS resources by backup policies.
Backups > All — to remove all backups created for the selected RDS resources.
Backups > Standard — to remove all standard backups created for the selected RDS resources.
Backups > Archived — to remove all archived backups created for the selected RDS resources.

All — to remove all cloud-native snapshots, snapshot replicas, and image-level backups created for the selected RDS resources both by backup policies and manually.