Vinchin Backup & Recovery provides agentless volume-level backups of AWS EC2 instances. For instance restore, it offers Full Restore, Granular Restore(file-level) and V2V migration between AWS EC2 and on-prem virtualizations.

Installation & Configuration

You can get the installation package on the download page and then install it on a virtual machine or physical machine.
After that, upload the license that we send to you in the email.
Add backup storage before creating a backup job.

Before creating a backup job, you need to first connect the AWS cloud platform to Vinchin.

Backup EC2 Instance:

After adding the AWS cloud platform, you can create a backup job in 4 steps.

Select the EC2 instance you want to backup.
Select backup storage.
Configure backup strategies.
Submit the job.

Restore EC2 Instance:

When you need to restore an EC2 instance, just select the restore point in the system and create a restore job in 4 steps.

Select a target EC2 Instance restore point under the AWS cloud platform.
Select a target AWS account on which you wish to run the restored Instances.
Configure strategies or just skip it
Submit the job

In addition to restore fully functional EC2 instances by using the in-cloud snapshot or off-cloud backup data, you can also use it to perform granular restore to quickly extract file from it.

Demonstration:

For the detailed steps, you can refer to this video:

If you still have questions after referring to our documentations and videos, please start a thread in this section or contact our technical support team at customer.service@vinchin.com for assistance.