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Jas
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Reputation: 11

Amazon RDS: Restore rds snapshot to existing instance

I have created a snapshot of my instance and made some unwanted changes in DB.

Now I want to restore my instance from this snapshot.

When I try to do it - it creates me one more instance, additionally to the one I have.

I specify "DB Instance Identifier" and after that I get two instances with the same ID.

So my question: Is there any way to restore snapshot to existing instance?

Because in other case - new instance is created with differrent endpoint (hostname) and I need to change my configs to access database. Or there is a better way to manage such cases?

I see a post in 2014 which said it is not possible, but now is it possible?

Amazon RDS: Restore snapshot to existing instance

Upvotes: 1

Views: 1835

Answers (1)

Pawel Kam
Pawel Kam

Reputation: 2144

You can't restore RDS snapshot to an existing instance. The documentation is explicit on this issue:

You can't restore from a DB snapshot to an existing DB instance; a new DB instance is created when you restore.

Upvotes: 2

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