Restoring a DB cluster to a specified time - Amazon Aurora
Restoring a DB cluster to a point in time

Restoring a DB cluster to a specified time

You can restore a DB cluster to a specific point in time, creating a new DB cluster.

When you restore a DB cluster to a point in time, you can choose the default virtual private cloud (VPC) security group. Or you can apply a custom VPC security group to your DB cluster.

Restored DB clusters are automatically associated with the default DB cluster and DB parameter groups. However, you can apply custom parameter groups by specifying them during a restore.

Amazon Aurora uploads log records for DB clusters to Amazon S3 continuously. To see the latest restorable time for a DB cluster, use the AWS CLI describe-db-clusters command and look at the value returned in the LatestRestorableTime field for the DB cluster.

You can restore to any point in time within your backup retention period. To see the earliest restorable time for a DB cluster, use the AWS CLI describe-db-clusters command and look at the value returned in the EarliestRestorableTime field for the DB cluster.

The backup retention period of the restored DB cluster is the same as that of the source DB cluster.

Note

Information in this topic applies to Amazon Aurora. For information on restoring an Amazon RDS DB instance, see Restoring a DB instance to a specified time.

For more information about backing up and restoring an Aurora DB cluster, see Overview of backing up and restoring an Aurora DB cluster.

For Aurora MySQL, you can restore a provisioned DB cluster to an Aurora Serverless DB cluster. For more information, see Restoring an Aurora Serverless v1 DB cluster.

You can also use AWS Backup to manage backups of Amazon Aurora DB clusters. If your DB cluster is associated with a backup plan in AWS Backup, that backup plan is used for point-in-time recovery. For information, see Restoring a DB cluster to a specified time using AWS Backup.

For information about restoring an Aurora DB cluster or a global cluster with an RDS Extended Support version, see Restoring an Aurora DB cluster or a global cluster with Amazon RDS Extended Support.

Restore a DB cluster to a specified time from an automated backup, a retained automated backup, or using AWS Backup.

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Restoring a DB cluster to a point in time

You can restore a DB cluster to a point in time using the AWS Management Console, the AWS CLI, or the RDS API.

To restore a DB cluster to a specified time

  1. Sign in to the AWS Management Console and open the Amazon RDS console at https://console.aws.amazon.com/rds/.

  2. In the navigation pane, choose Automated backups.

    The automated backups are displayed on the Current Region tab.

    DB cluster automated backups

  3. Choose the DB cluster that you want to restore.

  4. For Actions, choose Restore to point in time.

    The Restore to point in time window appears.

  5. Choose Latest restorable time to restore to the latest possible time, or choose Custom to choose a time.

    If you chose Custom, enter the date and time to which you want to restore the cluster.

    Note

    Times are shown in your local time zone, which is indicated by an offset from Coordinated Universal Time (UTC). For example, UTC-5 is Eastern Standard Time/Central Daylight Time.

  6. For DB cluster identifier, enter the name of the target restored DB cluster. The name must be unique.

  7. Choose other options as needed, such as the DB instance class and DB cluster storage configuration.

    For information about each setting, see Settings for Aurora DB clusters.

  8. Choose Restore to point in time.

To restore a DB cluster to a specified time, use the AWS CLI command restore-db-cluster-to-point-in-time to create a new DB cluster.

You can specify other settings. For information about each setting, see Settings for Aurora DB clusters.

Resource tagging is supported for this operation. When you use the --tags option, the source DB cluster tags are ignored and the provided ones are used. Otherwise, the latest tags from the source cluster are used.

For Linux, macOS, or Unix:

aws rds restore-db-cluster-to-point-in-time \
       --source-db-cluster-identifier mysourcedbcluster \
       --db-cluster-identifier mytargetdbcluster \
       --restore-to-time 2017-10-14T23:45:00.000Z

For Windows:

aws rds restore-db-cluster-to-point-in-time ^
       --source-db-cluster-identifier mysourcedbcluster ^
       --db-cluster-identifier mytargetdbcluster ^
       --restore-to-time 2017-10-14T23:45:00.000Z
Important

If you use the console to restore a DB cluster to a specified time, then Amazon RDS automatically creates the primary instance (writer) for your DB cluster. If you use the AWS CLI to restore a DB cluster to a specified time, you must explicitly create the primary instance for your DB cluster. The primary instance is the first instance that is created in a DB cluster.

To create the primary instance for your DB cluster, call the create-db-instance AWS CLI command. Include the name of the DB cluster as the --db-cluster-identifier option value.

To restore a DB cluster to a specified time, call the Amazon RDS API RestoreDBClusterToPointInTime operation with the following parameters:

  • SourceDBClusterIdentifier

  • DBClusterIdentifier

  • RestoreToTime

Important

If you use the console to restore a DB cluster to a specified time, then Amazon RDS automatically creates the primary instance (writer) for your DB cluster. If you use the RDS API to restore a DB cluster to a specified time, make sure to explicitly create the primary instance for your DB cluster. The primary instance is the first instance that is created in a DB cluster.

To create the primary instance for your DB cluster, call the RDS API operation CreateDBInstance. Include the name of the DB cluster as the DBClusterIdentifier parameter value.