Protect Your Amazon RDS Databases

Once you have registered your AWS account, you are ready to protect the RDS databases on an RDS instance:

If you have already registered your AWS account to protect AWS S3 or AWS EC2 workloads, then you must Update the Existing CloudFormation Template to update the Cohesity permissions in your AWS account.

To protect the RDS databases on an RDS instance:

  1. In DataProtect as a Service, navigate to Sources.

  2. Find the registered AWS account and click into it.

  3. Click the RDS: Aurora + Postgres tab.

  4. Click the Hierarchy View icon located at the right corner of the page.

  5. Hover over the RDS instance having the databases to protect.

  6. Click Database Credentials above the checkboxes.

  7. In the PostgreSQL Database Credentials screen, enter the Database Admin Username and Enter Password for the RDS instance, and then click Save.

    All the Aurora and PostgreSQL databases available on the RDS instances will be displayed as objects to select for protection.

  8. Select the checkboxes of the databases you want to protect and then click Protect above the checkboxes.

  9. In the New Protection dialog, by default, Amazon RDS Ingest will be selected as the Protection Type for protecting the databases on the RDS instance.

  10. Choose a policy to specify backup frequency and retention. If you don't have a policy, you can easily create one.

  11. To change or configure any of the additional settings, select More Options and perform the below steps, or else, click Protect.

  12. Under Settings, edit the Start Time if necessary.

  13. Under Additional Settings, configure the following option:

    1. Cancel Runs at Quiet Time Start: (Available only if the selected policy has at least one Quiet Time) When enabled, all the protection runs that are currently executing will cancel when the Quiet Time period starts. By default, this setting is disabled, meaning that after a protection run starts, it continues to execute even when a Quiet Time period starts. However, new protection runs will not start during a Quiet Time.

  14. Click Protect.

Next > When the first protection run completes, you will be ready to recover your protected Amazon RDS database if and when you need to.