<commit_before>---
owner_slack: "#govuk-2ndline"
title: Backup and restore databases in AWS RDS
section: AWS
layout: manual_layout
parent: "/manual.html"
last_reviewed_on: 2018-04-13
review_in: 3 months
---

Backups of RDS instances are [taken
nightly](https://github.com/alphagov/govuk-aws/tree/master/terraform/modules/aws/rds_instance).
They are stored in Amazon S3. SQL dumps are also taken nightly from `db_admin`
and `transition_db_admin`, encompassing all the databases on those instances.
<commit_msg>Bump last reviewed date of howto-backup-and-restore-in-aws-rds<commit_after>---
owner_slack: "#govuk-2ndline"
title: Backup and restore databases in AWS RDS
section: AWS
layout: manual_layout
parent: "/manual.html"
last_reviewed_on: 2018-07-25
review_in: 3 months
---

Backups of RDS instances are [taken
nightly](https://github.com/alphagov/govuk-aws/tree/master/terraform/modules/aws/rds_instance).
They are stored in Amazon S3. SQL dumps are also taken nightly from `db_admin`
and `transition_db_admin`, encompassing all the databases on those instances.

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