Protect Your Amazon RDS Instances

Once you have registered your AWS account, you are ready to protect the Amazon RDS DB instances in that account.

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 your Amazon RDS instances:

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

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

  3. Click the RDS: Aurora + Postgress tab.

  4. Use the checkboxes to select the objects for protection. To protect all objects in the source, click the checkbox next to the AWS account

  5. Click the Protect icon above the checkboxes.

    In the New Protection dialog, by default, Amazon Native Snapshot is selected as the Protection Type for protecting the RDS instance.

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

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

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

  9. Under Additional Settings, configure the following option:

    • 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.

  10. Click Protect.

If you have provided access to the databases on the RDS instance by providing the Database Credentials, then you must perform the following steps to protect the RDS instance.

  1. Click the checkbox of the RDS instance and then select Select All Child objects.

  2. Click the Protect icon above the checkboxes.

  3. In the New Protection dialog, select Amazon Native Snapshot as the Protection Type for protecting the RDS instance. If you want to protect the databases of this RDS instance, then select Amazon RDS Ingest as the Protection Type.

  4. Perform steps 5 till 9 documented above.

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