To me I care more about the schema, functions and triggers, and less on the data itself. From AWS document(https://docs.aws.amazon.com/AmazonRDS/latest/UserGuide/USER_CreateSnapshot.html), it doesn't address my question clearly.
Amazon RDS creates a storage volume snapshot of your DB instance,
backing up the entire DB instance and not just individual databases.
... Since the snapshot includes the entire storage volume, the size of
files, such as temporary files, also affects the amount of time it
takes to create the snapshot.
As far as I am aware, the schema, data, functions and triggers are all included. It includes all databases in the instance.
If you specifically don't want data to be backed up then you would need to create a manual backup process.
Being block level backups, AWS RDS snapshots include schema and data.
If you want a schema-only backup then use pg_dump with the --schema-only directive for PostgreSQL or mysqldump with --no-data for MySQL.
On AWS RDS, a Database Server (MySQL or SQL Server) is made of 2 things.
Compute Power (RAM, CPU, etc.)
Storage (EBS Volume)
Storage is the main Hard Disk that stores all the data files.
So, when you take a snapshot or backup on AWS RDS or Aurora, it creates a copy of the attached EBS volume (storage) and stores it somewhere in its data centers.
For example, you created 3, 4, or N SQL Server databases on an RDS SQL Server and you took the database snapshot or backup, then a copy of the complete EBS volume where database datafile (MFD, LDF, etc) are residing will be created. And when you restore it on a new instance, all databases will be restored, not an individual one.
Now answering your question, for SCHEMA backup, you can generate scripts from respective Database Management Tools.
SQL Server - SQL Server Management Studio
MySQL - SQLYug, WorkBench, etc.
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I have a database hosted in my companies local data centre (source) and another cloud-hosted database (AWS RDS Postgres Online data store)
The local database (on-prem) is updated on an intraday basis (every 1-2 hours), how can I ensure that I move the new data to the RDS Database as soon as changes/updates occur in the local source database (we need this updated data from source to run specific processes/business logic on the RDS database as soon as changes occur in the source databases).
Would AWS DMS or AWS Kinesis be sufficient for this use case?
Try to implement native replication from Postgre, it would be the best method https://hevodata.com/learn/postgresql-streaming-replication/
I have a doubt if in AWS all server-side work is done by cloud manager then why do we store backup for database?
I have studied in documentation that all the things are managed by cloud service providers for the database related things. Then what is the need of storing backup if service provider do everything for me?
You maintain your own backups of RDS instances for the same reason that you maintain offsite backups of on-premise databases: disaster recovery. In your own data center, a fire or terrorism or natural disaster could destroy both your database and your local backups. In the cloud, these disasters tend to take on a different form.
If all of your data is in any one place, then you are vulnerable to data loss in a catastrophic event, which could take a number of forms: a serious defect in the cloud provider's infrastructure (unlikely with AWS, but nothing is impossible), human error, malicious employees, a compromise of your credentials, or any other of a number of statistically-unlikely events -- the low probability of which becomes irrelevant when it occurs.
If you value your data, you back it up independently and outside of its native environment.
Amazon RDS runs a database of your choice: MySQL, PostgreSQL, Oracle, SQL Server. These are normal databases and operate in the same way as a database you would run yourself.
You are correct that a managed solution takes care of installation, maintenance and hardware issues. Also, you can configure the system to automatically take backups of the data.
From Working With Backups - Amazon Relational Database Service:
Amazon RDS creates and saves automated backups of your DB instance. Amazon RDS creates a storage volume snapshot of your DB instance, backing up the entire DB instance and not just individual databases.
Amazon RDS creates automated backups of your DB instance during the backup window of your DB instance. Amazon RDS saves the automated backups of your DB instance according to the backup retention period that you specify. If necessary, you can recover your database to any point in time during the backup retention period.
You also have the ability to trigger a manual backup. This is advisable, for example, before you do major work on the database, such as modifying schemas when upgrading an application that uses the database.
Bottom line: Amazon RDS can manage the backups for you. You do not need to take manage the backup process, but you can trigger the RDS backups yourself.
I made a big technical mistake when I launched my mysql database by selecting the largest storage setting by my database. As a result I deleted the instance, but I do have a snapshot of the last instance. I don't want to reinstate the snapshot and get charged, so I was wondering if there was a way for me to export the data from my last snapshot into a csv file and then create a new instance with smaller storage. Is this possible?
The only thing you can do with an RDS snapshot is restore it into a fresh RDS instance. Once you have the instance, you can export the data as CSV or using mysqldump.
From that, you can terminate the temporary instance and create your new, smaller instance and import the data.
But you cannot get at the data directly with the snapshot.
I am using solr on amazon ec2, and I am hoping to configure the solr instance so that it automatically stores data in amazon s3 instead of anywhere on the server. However I couldn't find any useful information on how to implement this. Does anyone know how? If this can't be achieved using amazon s3, what cloud storage do you recommend?
Thanks in advance.
You will want to store the Solr indexes on an EBS volume, which you can attach to the server. S3 is meant for serving files directly out to the internet (such as images and css files), or for general file storage (such as backups.) It is not meant to be used as a mounted disk for a database.
Solr likes very high IO, so the SSD backed EBS volumes are great for this. You can also make snapshots of an EBS volume to backup its data.
If you setup Solr slaves, you can also get away with using the server's ephemeral storage. This is a large partition that comes with most instance types. It is volatile storage, meaning all of the data is lost if the server is shutdown. However, it is free and quite fast. It is perfect for a slave which replicates its data from a master Solr instance backed by EBS.
I have an RDS automated backup from several hours ago. In there is some data, which I have accidentally removed from the current database. Is it possible to extract data from an old automated backup?
Yes, assuming the data was present at your recovery time.
If you used the automated backup feature, you will be able to restore a DB instance to a specified time -- this process will create a new DB instance that uses the data from your backup. Here's a detailed explaination of what would be happening:
The automated backup feature of Amazon RDS enables point-in-time recovery of your DB Instance. When automated backups are turned on for your DB Instance, Amazon RDS automatically performs a full daily snapshot of your data (during your preferred backup window) and captures transaction logs (as updates to your DB Instance are made). When you initiate a point-in-time recovery, transaction logs are applied to the most appropriate daily backup in order to restore your DB Instance to the specific time you requested.
You haven't told us what type of database engine you're using... but very generally, once the new DB instance is in the available state, you will be able to connect to it and extract any data just as you would on the source DB instance.
You can perform this action from the:
AWS console
CLI (rds-restore-db-instance-to-point-in-time)
API (RestoreDBInstanceToPointInTime).
Note that the security group will be set to the "Default" group by default, so you may need to modify the DB instance after it becomes available if you use any custom security groups to connect.