Recover Your Amazon RDS Instances

After you protect your Amazon RDS DB instances using the AWS Snapshot Protection Type, you can recover them to their original location or a new location using Cohesity DataProtect as a Service.

We recommend that you also review the Considerations for Amazon RDS .

Recover Amazon RDS Instances to Original Location

To recover your protected Amazon RDS DB instances to their original location:

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

  2. Click the Source name.

  3. Select Show All > Protected.

  4. Use the filters, search box, and views to locate and select the DB instances you want to recover.

    You can also use Global Search to locate, filter, and select the objects you need. Click the Global Search box at the top or type slash (/) anywhere to start your search.

  5. Click the Recover icon at the top to open the New Recovery form. By default, the Latest snapshot is pre-selected for recovery. If you need to recover from an earlier snapshot, click the Edit (pencil) icon to choose the desired snapshot. Selecting an invalid time from the slider automatically selects the closest available snapshot.

  6. Under Recover To, select Original Location.

  7. Enable the Multi A-Z Deployment option if you want the database instances to be recovered to have a standby instance deployed in another availability zone. This option is disabled by default.

  8. Configure the following Additional Settings:

    1. Database Instance Identifier: Specify the unique key that identifies the database instance that will be recovered.

    2. DB Port: Specify the TCP/IP port that the DB instance will use for application connections. The connection string of any application connecting to the DB instance must specify the port number of the DB instance. Both the security group applied to the instance and your company's firewalls must allow connections to this port.

    3. IAM DB Authentication: Enable this option if you want to manage your database user credentials through AWS IAM users and roles. This option is disabled by default.

    4. Public Accessibility: Enable this option if you want the DB instance to also have a public IP address in addition to the private IP address. This option is disabled by default.

    5. Copy Tags To Snapshots: Enable this option for copying tags to snapshots. This option is disabled by default.

    6. Auto Minor Version Upgrade: Enable this option if you want the DB instance to automatically upgrade when a new minor database engine version is available. This option is disabled by default.

  9. Optional. Change the default name of the recovery task in the Task Name field.

  10. Click Recover.

Cohesity DataProtect as a Service begins to restore the selected Amazon RDS databases.

Recover Amazon RDS Instances to New Location

To recover your protected Amazon RDS DB instances to a new location:

  1. Go to Sources.

  2. Click the Source name.

  3. Select Show All > Protected.

  4. Use the filters, search box, and views to locate and select the Amazon RDS instance you want to recover.

    You can also use Global Search to locate, filter, and select the objects you need. Click the Global Search box at the top or type slash (/) anywhere to start your search.

  5. Click the Recover icon at the top to open the New Recovery form. By default, the Latest snapshot is pre-selected for recovery. If you need to recover from an earlier snapshot, click the Edit (pencil) icon to choose the desired snapshot. Selecting an invalid time from the slider automatically selects the closest available snapshot.

  6. Under Recover To, select New Location.

  7. Enable the Multi A-Z Deployment option if you want the Amazon RDS database instance to be recovered to have a standby instance deployed in another availability zone. This option is disabled by default.

  8. Under Location, provide the following information:

    1. Source: Select a registered AWS account as the new recovery destination.

    2. Region: Select a destination AWS region.

  9. Under Network Settings, configure the following settings:

    1. Subnet: Select a subnet in the Amazon VPC to store the recovered RDS instance.

    2. Network Security Groups: Select the security group that should be applied to the DB instance.

    3. Availability Zone: Select an availability zone in AWS to recover the RDS instance.

  10. Configure the following Additional Settings:

    1. Database Instance Identifier: Specify the unique key that identifies the database instance that will be recovered.

    2. DB Port: Specify the TCP/IP port that the DB instance will use for application connections. The connection string of any application connecting to the DB instance must specify the port number of the DB instance. Both the security group applied to the instance and your company's firewalls must allow connections to this port.

    3. DB Option Group: Select an option group that contains the option you want to attach to the DB instance that will be recovered. If there are not any option groups compatible with the selected engine, a default group will be created at launch.

    4. DB Parameter Group: Select the database parameter group to associate with the DB instance.

    5. IAM DB Authentication: Enable this option if you want to manage your database user credentials through AWS IAM users and roles. This option is disabled by default.

    6. Public Accessibility: Enable this option if you want the DB instance to also have a public IP address in addition to the private IP address. This option is disabled by default.

    7. Copy Tags To Snapshots: Enable this option for copying tags to snapshots. This option is disabled by default.

    8. Auto Minor Version Upgrade: Enable this option if you want the DB instance to automatically upgrade when a new minor database engine version is available. This option is disabled by default.

  11. Optional. Change the default name of the recovery task in the Task Name field.

  12. Click Recover.

Cohesity DataProtect as a Service begins to restore the selected Amazon RDS databases.

Amazon RDS Recovery Support Matrix

Backup Type Data Source Recovery to Same AWS account, Same AWS region Recovery to same AWS account, different AWS region Recovery to a diff AWS account, same AWS region Recovery to a diff AWS account, different AWS region

AWS Snapshot

Encrypted

Supported

Supported

 Supported Supported

AWS Snapshot

Non-Encrypted

Supported

Supported

 Supported Supported