How to Backup Amazon EC2 Instance in Vinchin Backup & Recovery?

You will learn how to easily backup Amazon EC2 instance with Vinchin Backup & Recovery here. With a comprehensive suite of built-in advanced backup and restore features, Vinchin provides the most user-friendly, fully functional, and cost-optimized cloud data protection solution, ensuring the security of your mission-critical business data in the cloud.

To backup Amazon EC2 instance agentlessly, you need to add the host first.

Just click Resources > Infrastructure > Cloud Platform. Click Add.

Field with credentials of AWS IAM, and then click License to finish configuration.

Now you can create backup jobs for EC2 instance.

Go to Cloud Backup > Backup page.

Step 1. Select Backup Source

Here you can click a EC2 instance to backup. For multiple instances on the host, you can select a group of instances to backup to add them to the list on the right. After adding the instances which you want to backup, click Next.

Step 2. Select Backup Destination

Select a Compute Node to run this backup job and then select the Target Storage for the EC2 instance backup. Click Next.

Step 3. Select Backup Strategies

In Schedule, you can choose Backup as scheduled or Once-off backup. Backup as scheduled will automatically backup the selected instances at a specific time, and Once-off backup will backup the instances only once.

For scheduled backups, you can choose a daily, weekly or monthly schedule. You can also choose incremental or differential combinations of backups.

You can also set up Throttling Policy to control system resource usage during backup. 

In Data Storage Policy, you can enable Data Deduplication and Data Compression to reduce the size of backup files. You can set up compression level according to your needs.

In Retention Policy, Vinchin allows you to retain backup files by the Number of Restore Points or the Number of Days.

Also, you can activate the advanced GFS Retention for your instance backups to apply long-term retention policy of some specific full restore points.

BitDetector is Vinchin’s unique technology. Enabling BitDetector will help reduce the size of backup files by excluding swap files and unpartitioned spaces.

In Transmission Strategy, you can set up transmission strategy, select the proxy instance type according to your needs.

After configuring all the backup strategies, click Next.

Step 4. Review and submit the job.

You will be redirected to the Jobs page of Monitor Center. The created backup job will be listed here and you can start job manually, then click job name to monitor the job in real time.

Here, you can see the EC2 instance has been successfully backed up.

If there are any issues to the EC2 instance, you can restore it from the backup.

Exploring the capabilities of Vinchin Backup & Recovery in your Amazon EC2 environment with our 60-day free trial, designed to safeguard your virtual machines. For further details, feel free to reach out to Vinchin directly or connect with our local partners.