Amazon RDS for PostgreSQL

You can use the Commvault Cloud software to back up and restore Amazon RDS for PostgreSQL.

Backups

Backups You Can Perform

• Full backups

When You Can Perform Backups

• On a schedule: The backup plan that you assign manages scheduled backups

• On demand: You can perform on-demand backups at any time

Data You Can Back Up

• PostgreSQL user databases

  Note

  The following databases will be skipped from the backups of:

  • Amazon RDS PostgresSQL database - rdsadmin, template0, template1

Restores

Backups You Can Use for Restores

• The most recent backup: For example, restore the most recent backup to its original location

• A backup from a specific date: For example, restore data to a point in time before it became unusable

• Backups from a date range: For example, restore data that was accidentally deleted

Destinations You Can Restore To

• In-place: Restore data to the location that it was backed up from

• Out-of-place: Restore data to the following destinations:

  • Cross-cloud: You can restore PostgreSQL databases from one cloud service provider (such as Amazon Web Services and Google Cloud) to a different cloud service provider. The source computer and destination computer should have the same operating system.

  • An instance in the same platform or a different platform (such as Alibaba Cloud, Amazon Web Services, Azure, and Google Cloud) across regions

  • An on-premises instance

  • A disk location