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Cloud Backup:Before you begin

Last Updated:Feb 28, 2024

You can use Cloud Backup to back up MySQL databases that are deployed on Elastic Compute Service (ECS) instances. You can also restore the databases based on your business requirements. This topic describes the preparations that you must make before you back up data.

  1. Install Cloud Assistant for the ECS instance that hosts the database. This step is required if the database that you want to back up is deployed on an ECS instance.

    An Cloud Backup backup client for ECS must be used together with Cloud Assistant.

    • If you purchased the ECS instance before December 1, 2017, you must manually install the Cloud Assistant client. For more information, see Install the Cloud Assistant client.

    • If you purchased the ECS instance on or after December 1, 2017, the Cloud Assistant client is pre-installed.

  2. The username and password that you use to log on to the ApsaraDB RDS for MySQL database are obtained.

What to do next

For more information, see Register an ECS-hosted MySQL database or Register an on-premises MySQL database.