Step1. Access AWS backup Console
Step2. Create Backup Plan
Step3. Create New Plan and enter the backup plan name , Create a backup repository. This is the repository for EC2 backup. Click to create a backup repository.
Step4. Backup frequency can be selected according to usage scenarios
Step5. The backup period can be customized at a specific time. It is recommended to select off-peak time for backup.
Step6. Choose to copy to another availability zone: this time, backup from Virginia Region to Tokyo Region
Create a destination backup repository, which will be automatically synchronized from Virginia to the Tokyo backup repository.
Step7. Assuming that your EC2 is using Windows and uses services such as SQL Server, be sure to enable it.
Back up and restore Microsoft Windows applications with VSS (Volume Shadow Copy Service) functionality
Step8. After completion, you will see the EC2 Backup plan created
Step9. Click to enter the plan and start assigning resources to let him know which services to back up.
You can choose a default IAM role and let AWS help you create a role for AWS Backup.
Step10. Backup resource selection, select EC2 here, you can choose to back up all EC2 or specific EC2
Step11. After setting, click OK to see the set backup plan.
Click the backup repository on the left to see the repository you set. From the restore point, you can see the set automatic backup.
Step12. Click the restore point and press Copy to manually copy across regions to the Toyko Region.
Step13. After switching to Tokyo Region, you can see the created backup save library
You can see that the backup EC2 has been copied to Tokyo Region
Since the Backup Plan has been set in the Virginia Region above, it will be automatically synchronized.
[1] AWS Backup EC2跨越區域建立備份副本
https://docs.aws.amazon.com/zh_tw/aws-backup/latest/devguide/cross-region-backup.html
