Creating a snapshot schedule
Amazon Redshift takes automatic, incremental snapshots of your data periodically and saves them to Amazon S3. Additionally, you can take manual snapshots of your data whenever you want.
All snapshot tasks in the Amazon Redshift console start from the snapshot list. You can filter the list by using a time range, the snapshot type, and the cluster associated with the snapshot. In addition, you can sort the list by date, size, and snapshot type. Depending on the snapshot type that you select, you might have different options available for working with the snapshot.
To precisely control when snapshots are taken, you can create a snapshot schedule and attach it to one or more clusters. You can attach a schedule when you create a cluster or by modifying the cluster. For more information, see Automated snapshot schedules.
To create a snapshot schedule
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Sign in to the AWS Management Console and open the Amazon Redshift console at https://console.aws.amazon.com/redshiftv2/
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On the navigation menu, choose Clusters, Snapshots, then choose the Snapshot schedules tab. The snapshot schedules are displayed.
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Choose Add schedule to display the page to add a schedule.
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Enter the properties of the schedule definition, then choose Add schedule.
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On the page that appears, you can attach clusters to your new snapshot schedule, then choose OK.
