AWS Making a copy of a database using RDS

Question

I have a database instance on RDS with 2 databases on it. Can we use the RDS command line tools to copy the one database to the other?

Answer 1

One way to do that is mysqldump for getting the tables and mysql for import.

Or try setting up replication and then to promote the slave to be the master incase you want to update your database's release/version:

http://docs.aws.amazon.com/AmazonRDS/latest/UserGuide/USER_ReadRepl.html

For external Backup:

http://docs.aws.amazon.com/AmazonRDS/latest/UserGuide/MySQL.Procedural.Exporting.NonRDSRepl.html