How to schedule backup of EBS volume (Snapshot)

To Schedule Snapshot of the EBS volume, follow these steps:

Select EC2 from the Main Menu to go to the EC2 section.

Select AWS Account and the Region for the EBS volume you want to schedule backup.

On the EC2 Instance list, click the black arrow on the left to expand EC2 of the attached EBS.

From the menu, select Schedule Snapshot.

In the scheduler window, under the Schedule section, select snapshot frequency: options are Hourly, Daily or Monthly.

Optional settings for Snapshot:

Description – Applied to snapshot

Name – Applied to snapshot

Template – Name of pre-configured description template. Learn more about description templates in Introduction to Description Templates

Copy Snapshot to Different Region – Specify additional Region(s) where snapshots are copied after creation (cross-region snapshot)

Tags – Create multiple tags to apply to the snapshot. To add tag(s), enter tag name, tag value and click Add.

Once you specify Description, Name, Template, and/or Tags, these settings will be applied to the cross-region snapshots as well.

To finish configuration, click Save.

A new row will appear in the table below the Snapshot Options section. This row has three options: Edit, Delete, and Suspend. Edit and Delete allow you to modify or delete the given scheduler; Suspend allows you to temporarily suspend execution of scheduler without deleting it. When Suspend is clicked, the option changes to Resume, which allows you to resume a suspended schedule in the future.

Multiple schedulers for the same EBS volume can be created based on different needs by repeating the above steps.

To learn more about applying the same scheduler configuration to multiple EBS volumes, please read:

Introduction to Scheduler Templates