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Get postgres snapshot from Amazon RDS

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Problem

I can not find a simple way to get a copy of the nightly backup I take of my Amazon RDS postgres instance so I can restore it on my local machine to play with.

Right now I'm doing a pg_dump when I need a copy, but it would be nicer (and faster, presumably) to be able to download those snapshots. Is this not possible?

Solution

You can't download a snapshot from RDS you have to use a tool like pg_dump

This has already been answered multiple times on regular Stack Overflow:
https://stackoverflow.com/questions/14916899/download-rds-snapshot

Context

StackExchange Database Administrators Q#60982, answer score: 10

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