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title: "Back up Zesty Disk with Amazon Data Lifecycle Manager"
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updated: 2024-12-02T10:45:10Z
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# Back up Zesty Disk with Amazon Data Lifecycle Manager

This topic describes how to automate backing up the EBS volumes in a Zesty Disk filesystem using the Amazon Data Lifecycle Manager.

For restore options, see [Restore backed up Zesty Disk volumes](/v1/docs/restore-backed-up-zesty-disk-volumes).

#### Prerequisites

- IAM role to the AWS account where the instance is configured that enables creating and managing AWS Data Lifecycle Manager.

**To automate Zesty Disk backups:**

1. Log in to the AWS Management Console.
2. From the **EC2** menu, select **Elastic Block Store > Lifecycle Manager**.
3. Click **Create lifecycle policy**.
4. From the Schedule-based policy section, select **EBS snapshot policy** then click **Next**.
5. Configure the settings:
  1. Select **Instance** as the target resource type.
  2. Apply the policy to specific resources by entering the tags of instances running Zesty Disk).
  3. Enter an easily identifiable Policy description, such as 'Zesty Disk backup for dev environment.'
  4. Select an IAM role to be used by this policy.
  5. Add a tag with these values: **Key**: ZestyDiskBU, **Value**: True Note, this is not optional.

![](https://cdn.document360.io/0eb80240-664b-49f5-9181-5713ddf9f725/Images/Documentation/automate_backup_aws_tags(3).png)
  6. Set the Policy status as **Enabled**.
  7. Ensure that the **Exclude root volume** checkbox is clear (unchecked). Root must be included in the snapshot for restore to be successful.
  8. Click **Next**.
6. Configure a backup schedule (Min: 1). In the following example, we created a new snapshot of each instance every 24 hours at 00:00 UTC, while always keeping the previous three snapshots.

![](https://cdn.document360.io/0eb80240-664b-49f5-9181-5713ddf9f725/Images/Documentation/image-1718721112438.png)
7. In the **Advanced settings** section, select **Copy tags from source**.

This will add the ZestyDisk tag attached to all of your volumes to the snapshots, making it possible to easily filter for them later.
8. There are other options. Review them and decide whether to enable them.
9. Click **Review policy**.
10. Review policy details to ensure that they are correct.

(Optional) To create additional schedules, click Add another schedule.
11. Click **Create policy**.

Volumes that match the specified tags will be backed up automatically in accordance with this policy.