Deleting RDS Custom for Oracle automated backups - Amazon Relational Database Service

Deleting RDS Custom for Oracle automated backups

You can delete retained automated backups for RDS Custom for Oracle when they are no longer needed. The procedure is the same as the procedure for deleting Amazon RDS backups.

To delete a retained automated backup

  1. Sign in to the AWS Management Console and open the Amazon RDS console at https://console.aws.amazon.com/rds/.

  2. In the navigation pane, choose Automated backups.

  3. Choose Retained.

  4. Choose the retained automated backup that you want to delete.

  5. For Actions, choose Delete.

  6. On the confirmation page, enter delete me and choose Delete.

You can delete a retained automated backup by using the AWS CLI command delete-db-instance-automated-backup.

The following option is used to delete a retained automated backup:

  • --dbi-resource-id – The resource identifier for the source RDS Custom DB instance.

    You can find the resource identifier for the source DB instance of a retained automated backup by using the AWS CLI command describe-db-instance-automated-backups.

The following example deletes the retained automated backup with source DB instance resource identifier custom-db-123ABCEXAMPLE.

For Linux, macOS, or Unix:

aws rds delete-db-instance-automated-backup \
    --dbi-resource-id custom-db-123ABCEXAMPLE

For Windows:

aws rds delete-db-instance-automated-backup ^
    --dbi-resource-id custom-db-123ABCEXAMPLE