# Backing up and restoring an Amazon Aurora DB cluster
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These topics provide information about backing up and restoring Amazon Aurora DB clusters.

**Tip**  
The Aurora high availability features and automatic backup capabilities help to keep your data safe without requiring extensive setup from you. Before you implement a backup strategy, learn about the ways that Aurora maintains multiple copies of your data and helps you to access them across multiple DB instances and AWS Regions. For details, see [High availability for Amazon Aurora](Concepts.AuroraHighAvailability.md).

**Topics**
+ [Overview of backing up and restoring an Aurora DB cluster](Aurora.Managing.Backups.md)
+ [Retaining automated backups](Aurora.Managing.Backups.Retaining.md)
+ [Understanding Amazon Aurora backup storage usage](aurora-storage-backup.md)
+ [Creating a DB cluster snapshot](USER_CreateSnapshotCluster.md)
+ [Restoring from a DB cluster snapshot](aurora-restore-snapshot.md)
+ [DB cluster snapshot copying](aurora-copy-snapshot.md)
+ [Sharing a DB cluster snapshot](aurora-share-snapshot.md)
+ [Exporting DB cluster data to Amazon S3](export-cluster-data.md)
+ [Exporting DB cluster snapshot data to Amazon S3](aurora-export-snapshot.md)
+ [Restoring a DB cluster to a specified time](aurora-pitr.md)
+ [Deleting a DB cluster snapshot](aurora-delete-snapshot.md)
+ [Tutorial: Restore an Amazon Aurora DB cluster from a DB cluster snapshot](tut-restore-cluster.md)