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Recipe: Performing AWS RDS Instance Restore to the original locationn

Expected deliverables:

An entire AWS RDS instance recovered at the time of backup state.

Time to complete: 5 minutes

Ingredients:

  • An AWS RDS Backup, either from cloud-native snapshot or snapshot replica

Before you start: Veeam Backup for AWS does not support restoring RDS resources to the original location if deletion protection is enabled for the source resource.

Assumptions:

You have an existing Veeam Backup for AWS deployment, and backups of one or more AWS RDS Instances.

Method:

  1. Login the Veeam Backup for AWS web interface.
  2. Navigate to Protected Data > Databases > RDS. Select the RDS instance that you want to restore, and click Restore > Instance Restore.
  3. At the Instances step, select a restore point that will be used to restore the selected RDS instance (by default the most recent restore point). Click Next.
  4. At the Account step, choose whether you want to use an IAM role of an AWS account, an AWS account of an AWS Organization, or one-time access keys of an IAM user with enough privileges to perform the restore operation
  5. At the Restore Mode step , choose that you want to restore the selected RDS instance to the original location.
  6. At the Reason step, specify a reason for restoring the Cloud SQL instance. Click Next.
  7. At the Summary step, review summary information and click Finish.

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