Questions tagged [aws-backup]
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How do I exclude certain EBS volumes attached to an EC2 instance from being backed up?
I'm working on a system-wide backup solution to back up all EC2 instances that are running in an environment with AWS Backup. Some of them have attached EBS volumes that also seem to be backed up with the instance. Below is my terraform code that…

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Can AWS Backup be used with Windows 2012 servers running Oracle on EC2 instances?
We have a fairly large Windows Server 2012 R2 machine that has Oracle 12c running on it. We used AWS MGN (Application Migration Service) to migrate that on-prem machine into AWS. The migration was tested and is successful - so we have a large…

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AWS cloudformation condition for creating a resource
How to use a condition for AWS Child resource type
I wanted to create an AWS backup plan with 2 backup rules
with a condition (example, if I set create2backup rule as "true", it should create the rule 1 and rule 2, if the condition is false, it…

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AWS Backup, specify which volumes to backup
We are currently using AWS Backup for backing up our EC2 instances. AWS Backup creates snapshot of all attached EBS volumes.
We have couple of instances with attached multiple EBS volumes and we would like to specify to backup only system volume and…

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Failover EC2 cross-region
Just looking for some general guidance here. I have an instance that is living in the us-west-1 region. I want to create a multi-region failover solution where if the instance in us-west-1 is stopped or terminated, a new instance in us-east-1 would…

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How do I use AWS Backup in Terraform to create a vault in a different region?
I'm implementing a solution to backup my Oracle RDS database using AWS Backup. I'd like to have one vault in my current region and a backup vault in a different region. Being somewhat new to Terraform, I'm not quite sure how to accomplish this.…

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Access AWS CloudWatch Logs and Metrics Off-Prem
AWS allows us to capture all kinds of metrics and logs through CloudWatch. Are these data accessible outside the AWS cloud environment (assuming proper permissions and policies are set to allow it to be so)?
For example, could these data be backed…

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Terraform Unable to create backup of EC2 for Selecting Backups By Tag
I have a Terraform resource that creates a backup of an EC2 instance in AWS Backup. I am trying to choose my instances based on tags. So by referring to Terraform docs online (Selecting Backups By Tag), I created a resource that looks as…

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AWS Backup queries (EC2/EBS)
I'm running an EC2 instance using Ubuntu 20.04 to host 4 small personal websites (1 .NET Core and 3 WordPress) and I want to ensure a regular backup schedule, mainly because I'm fairly new to Linux and setting up this server took FOREVER, and I'm…

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How can I copy AWS Backup vault files to a local server?
How can I copy the backup files created by AWS Backup to an on-premise server?
Thanks for any help.

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AwsBackUp supports cross region copy in terraform
Does terraform support aws backup feature for cross region copy (https://www.terraform.io/docs/providers/aws/r/backup_plan.html )?
As I read the document I can see that it does support.
But I get the following error:
Error: Unsupported argument
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An error occurred (401) when calling the PutBackupVaultNotifications operation:
Hi i am getting an error while creating backupvault notification this is my script
aws backup put-backup-vault-notifications --endpoint-url https://ap-south-1.console.aws.amazon.com/backup --backup-vault-name testing --sns-topic-arn…

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Backup of AWS ec2 root drive
I have an ec2 instance with one volume as root drive.
I've set a AWS backup of the volume, is this the best procedure or should I ec2 backup not the volume.
I can't work out if restoring the volume and attaching it to an instance will bring it back,…

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How to build a AWS CloudFormation YML from AWS Backup
I'm using AWS Backup services to create backups to my DynamoDB, but I don't like that solution because it's very manually and not replicable.
Now, How can I build a AWS Backup (from CloudFormation Designer or template)?
I'm searching about it but I…

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Can we backup entire VPC using boto3 in python?
I want to backup all resources from VPC. Currently, I am doing something like this via a python script,
Back up individual resources like EC2, RDS, EFS, etc from VPC.
I am just wondering if we could back up the entire VPC at once instead of…

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