Managing Backed-up Data
To view and manage backed-up data, navigate to the Backups node of the Home view. The node displays information on all restore points created by Veeam Backup for AWS appliances.
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You cannot remove created image-level backups and snapshots from the Veeam Backup & Replication console. To remove restore points of EC2 instances, RDS resources, EFS file systems and VPC configurations, open the Veeam Backup for AWS appliance Web UI and follow the instructions provided in the Veeam Backup for AWS User Guide, section Managing Backed-Up Data. |
When you expand the Backups node in the working area, you can see the following icons:
Icon | Protected Workload |
|---|---|
| Indicates that the protected workload is an EC2 instance. |
| Indicates that the protected workload is an DB instance. |
| Indicates that the protected workload is an Aurora DB cluster. |
| Indicates that the protected workload is a VPC configuration. |
| Indicates that the protected workload is an EFS file system. |
The Backups node contains 4 subnodes:
- The Snapshots subnode displays information on cloud-native snapshots of the protected EC2 instances, RDS resources, and information on cloud-native backups of the protected EFS file systems:
- <appliance_name> nodes show snapshots or backups created manually on Veeam Backup for AWS appliances and snapshots or backups imported to the Veeam Backup for AWS appliances from AWS Regions specified in backup policy settings.
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Veeam Backup & Replication displays all existing snapshots of RDS resources, not only snapshots created by the Veeam backup service. Amazon DB snapshots created for DB instances or Aurora DB clusters in AWS will have the AWS Snapshot type in the Veeam Backup & Replication console and the Veeam Backup for AWS Web UI. |
- <backup_policy_name> nodes show snapshots or backups created by backup policies.
To learn how Veeam Backup for AWS creates cloud-native snapshots of EC2 instances, RDS resources, and cloud-native backups of EFS file systems, see the Veeam Backup for AWS User Guide, section How Backup Works.
- The External Repository subnode displays information on image-level backups of the protected EC2 instances that are stored in standard repositories and backups of VPC configurations that are stored on Veeam Backup for AWS appliances.
- <backup_policy_name> nodes show backups of EC2 instances created by backup policies.
- <aws_account_name> nodes show VPC configuration backups created for specific AWS accounts.
To learn how Veeam Backup for AWS creates image-level backups of EC2 instances and VPC configuration backups, see the Veeam Backup for AWS User Guide, section How Backup Works.
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If a backup chain was originally encrypted and then got decrypted by Veeam Backup & Replication, the backup chain will be marked with the Key icon. |
- The External Repository (Encrypted) subnode displays information on encrypted image-level backups of EC2 instances that are stored in standard repositories and that have not been decrypted yet, which means either that you have not specified the decryption password or that the specified password is invalid.
To learn how to decrypt backups, see Decrypting Backups.
- The External Repository (Archive) subnode displays information on image-level backups of EC2 instances that are stored in archive repositories.
To learn how Veeam Backup for AWS creates archive backups, see Veeam Backup for AWS User Guide, section Archive Backup Chain.
