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I have been looking on Amazon RDS for a way to automatically created incremental snapshots for RDS databases. I want to create hourly snapshots.

Can anyone help me ?

Tony
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    cron and a small shell script that calls the AWS command-line tools? – ceejayoz Nov 25 '13 at 20:22
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    Why? Seems like overkill - why not just do a daily snap + binary logs? That will get you point-in-time recovery. – EEAA Nov 25 '13 at 20:27
  • EEAA, what exactly means that I can get point-in-time recovery? Can I say: OK I want the database the way it was at 3PM yesterday? – Tony Nov 25 '13 at 20:29
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    Using a combination of nightly full backups and replaying binary logs, you can restore the database to the **exact** query and/or time desired, which obviously is **much** more granular than snapshots. Sounds like you need to read up on MySQL backup/restore options. – EEAA Nov 25 '13 at 20:31
  • Should you use an existing solution? https://www.skeddly.com/features/schedules-and-triggers/ – sivabudh Jul 12 '17 at 09:48

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You can refer to http://aws.amazon.com/rds/faqs/#23 or you can use the CLI with a scheduled task:

aws rds create-db-snapshot --db-snapshot-identifier DBName-Snapshot-20131125 --db-instance-identifier DBName
EEAA
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    +1. Also, Kudos for giving the command example using the new awscli. – EEAA Nov 25 '13 at 20:28
  • What are binary logs? – Tony Nov 25 '13 at 20:31
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    @Tony - this is all really elementary stuff. Read through the MySQL manual. – EEAA Nov 25 '13 at 20:34
  • Do I have a way to configure automatic snapshots from the aws console? – Tony Nov 25 '13 at 21:03
  • Because If I dont have the chance to do that, I will have to install aws rds client tools on an instance and set up the scheduler, right? – Tony Nov 25 '13 at 21:04
  • @tony - no, you cannot configure automated snapshots at this frequency from the console. – EEAA Nov 25 '13 at 21:13
  • @Tony, I haven't tried it yet, but I think now you should be able to use [Scheduled Lambda functions](https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/aws/aws-lambda-update-python-vpc-increased-function-duration-scheduling-and-more/) to achieve this without having to use an instance to run the command. – OrPo Oct 30 '15 at 09:39
  • This takes a full (non incremental) snap right? – emmdee Apr 17 '19 at 08:16