Restoring from Backup Files to RDS for SQL Server

Scenarios

This section describes how to use an automated or manual backup to restore a DB instance to the status when the backup was created.

Procedure

  1. Log in to the management console.
  2. Click in the upper left corner and select a region and a project.
  3. Click Service List. Under Database, click Relational Database Service. The RDS console is displayed.
  4. On the Backups & Restorations page, locate the target backup and click Restore in the Operation column.

    Alternatively, click the target DB instance on the Instances page. On the displayed page, choose Backups & Restorations. On the displayed page, select the target backup to be restored and click Restore in the Operation column.

  5. In the displayed dialog box, configure required information and click OK.

    1. Select a restoration method and click OK.
      • Create New Instance
        The Create New Instance page is displayed.
        • The DB engine of the new DB instance is the same as that of the original DB instance and cannot be changed.
        • Storage space of the new DB instance is the same as that of the original DB instance by default and the new instance must be at least as large as the original DB instance.
        • Other settings are the same as those of the original DB instance by default and can be modified. For details, see Step 1: Create a DB Instance.
      • Restore to Original
        • If the DB instance for which the backup is created has been deleted, data cannot be restored to the original DB instance.
        • Restoring to the original DB instance will overwrite data on it and cause the original DB instance to be unavailable during the restoration.
      • Restore to Existing
        • Restoring to an existing DB instance will overwrite data on it and cause the existing DB instance to be unavailable.
        • To restore backup data to an existing DB instance, the selected DB instance must be in the same VPC as the original DB instance and must have the same DB engine and the same or later version than the original DB instance.
        • Ensure that the storage space of the selected DB instance is greater than or equal to the storage space of the original DB instance. Otherwise, data will not be restored.
        • DB instances with the TDE function enabled cannot be restored from backups to existing DB instances.

        Select an existing DB instance and click Next.

    2. Select the databases to be restored. You can rename these databases as required. If you do not enter a new name, the original database name will be used.
      • The new database names must be different from each other and must be different from the original database names.
      • The new database names cannot contain the following fields (case-insensitive): rdsadmin, master, msdb, tempdb, model, and resource.
      • Each database name consists of 1 to 64 characters. Only letters, digits, hyphens (-), and underscores (_) are allowed.

  6. View the restoration result. The result depends on which restoration method was selected:

    • Create New Instance

      A new DB instance is created using the backup data. The status of the DB instance changes from Creating to Available.

      The new DB instance is independent from the original one. If you need read replicas to offload read pressure, create one or more for the new DB instance.

    • Restore to Original

      On the Instances page, the status of the target existing DB instance changes from Restoring to Available. If the target existing DB instance contains read replicas, the read replica status is the same as the target existing DB instance status.

      After the restoration is complete, a full backup will be automatically triggered.

    • Restore to Existing

      On the Instances page, the status of the DB instance changes from Restoring to Available.

Parent topic: Backups and Restorations