Managing automatic backups of EFS file systems - Amazon Elastic File System

Managing automatic backups of EFS file systems

When you create a file system using the Amazon EFS console, automatic backups are turned on by default. You can turn on automatic backups after creating your file system using the AWS CLI or API.

You can edit the default backup plan settings using the AWS Backup console. For more information, see Managing backup plans in the AWS Backup Developer Guide. You can see all of your automatic backups, and edit the default EFS backup plan settings using the AWS Backup console.

Amazon EFS applies the aws:elasticfilesystem:default-backup system tag key with a value of enabled to EFS file systems when automatic backups are enabled.

After you create a file system, you can turn automatic backups on or off using the console, the AWS CLI, or the EFS API.

  1. Open the Amazon Elastic File System console at https://console.aws.amazon.com/efs/.

  2. In the File systems page, choose the file system that you want to turn automatic backups on or off for and display the File system details page.

  3. Choose Edit in the General settings panel.

    • To turn on automatic backups, select Enable automatic backups.

    • To turn off automatic backups, clear Enable automatic backups.

  5. Choose Save changes.

  • Use the put-backup-policy CLI command (the corresponding API operation is PutBackupPolicy) turn automatic backups on or off for an existing file system.

    • Use the following command to turn on automatic backups.

      $ aws efs put-backup-policy --file-system-id fs-01234567 \
--backup-policy Status="ENABLED"

      EFS responds with the new backup policy.

      {
   "BackupPolicy": { 
      "Status": "ENABLING"
   }
}

    • Use the following command to turn off automatic backups.

      $ aws efs put-backup-policy --file-system-id fs-01234567 \
--backup-policy Status="DISABLED"

      EFS responds with the new backup policy.

      {
   "BackupPolicy": { 
      "Status": "DISABLING"
   }
}