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AWS RDS Aurora MySQL Backups
Backup your RDS Aurora MySQL database to s3 or other providers s3 storage
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Easy Setup
Easy to get started with SnapShooter's RDS MySQL backups, just follow the guide, choose your own server to use as the backup hub or use one of SnapShoots on-demand servers to backup your database without having to manage your own servers. Great if you're hosting your applications serverless and need backups. Full MySQLDump backups provide a backup that is no longer limited to AWS and relies on AWS file system snapshots. Perfect if you want downloads you can export to different providers or even your local machine.
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Full MySQLDump Backups
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Restore outside of AWS
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Restore without rebuilding DB instances
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Do you need SSH Access
No! If you don't have a server within your VPC that can access the database, you can use our Serverless Backups and we will spin up a server just for the backup. We have serverless Fargate and serverless outside of AWS depending on what you need!
Stoked that SnapShooter takes care of MySQL backups for us, I started out writing my own scripts to do it but it gets pretty complicated between dumping, uploading, rotating, verifying... would much rather use a reliable service like this than roll my own!
Learn how SnapShooter makes backups of your AWS RDS Aurora MySQL.
Watch the way your data flows from source to the storage you decide.
Server Based AWS RDS Aurora MySQL Backups
For customers who already have a server and want there Aurora Database data to stay within there own network, only meta sent back to SnapShooter.
- SnapShooter Connects Via SSH to your server
- Once Connected this server connects directly to your Aurora Database and begins the backup process
- Data from Aurora Database begins streaming to your server
- Your Server compresses the data and uploads it to your storage
- Confirmation of uploaded chunk is received, repeat steps 3,4,5 until backup completed
- During the backup meta data is periodic send back to SnapShooter for real time monitoring
- Once the backup is completed SnapShooter confirms the file size with the storage
Serverless AWS RDS Aurora MySQL Backups
For customers who want us to directly access your Aurora Database using SnapShooters fleet of global servers.
- SnapShooter boots a container in a SnapShooter cluster of your choosing
- Once booted this container connects your Aurora Database and begins the backup process
- Data from Aurora Database begins streaming to the SnapShooter Container
- The container compresses the data and uploads it to your storage
- Confirmation of uploaded chunk is received, repeat steps 3,4,5 until backup completed
- During the backup meta data is periodic send back to SnapShooter for real time monitoring
- Once the backup is completed SnapShooter confirms the file size with the storage
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