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Amazon RDS Plugin

The following article aims at presenting the reader with information about the Bacula Enterprise Amazon RDS Plugin.

Amazon Relational Database Service (Amazon RDS) is a managed database service provided by Amazon Web Services (AWS) that simplifies the setup, operation, and scaling of relational databases in the cloud. RDS supports several popular database engines, including PostgreSQL, MySQL, MariaDB, Oracle, and Microsoft SQL Server. The service can be deployed via managed Amazon EC2 instances, or in fully managed format with Amazon Aurora. It includes limited automated backups in the AWS Cloud, software patching, and database monitoring, as well as automatic failover and replication to enhance availability and reliability. Additionally, RDS provides scalable storage and compute resources, enabling users to adjust capacity as needed without experiencing downtime.

The Bacula Enterprise Amazon RDS Plugin provides backup and restore of database instances (whether standalone or clustered) running in Amazon RDS, managing the whole snapshot livecycle without limitations. It also offers the optional feature of automatically exporting data to an S3 bucket in the AWS cloud and to extract it to send it to any other storage system managed by Bacula Enterprise, whether in the cloud or on-premise (including any type of disk, tape or alternative cloud). The entire process operates in an agent-less manner, providing a high degree of flexibility for executing various operations and delivering superior performance when the underlying network is suitable for the backup target. Once the data from a database has been protected by Bacula Enterprise, it can be restored to a new Cloud RDS instance or to a on-premise database engine, allowing the user to use this plugin as an export tool if there is a need to migrate data to a different engine.

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