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AWS AmazonRDS documentation change

Service: AmazonRDS · 2025-10-01 · Documentation low

File: AmazonRDS/latest/UserGuide/db2-troubleshooting.md

Summary

Added documentation for rdsadmin.backup_database errors including insufficient disk space warnings and internal error handling

Security assessment

The changes address backup failure scenarios and storage requirements but do not indicate a security vulnerability being patched. While backups are security-adjacent, this documentation update focuses on operational troubleshooting rather than introducing or fixing security controls.

Diff

diff --git a/AmazonRDS/latest/UserGuide/db2-troubleshooting.md b/AmazonRDS/latest/UserGuide/db2-troubleshooting.md
index bb55b6f80..c3f075e5b 100644
--- a//AmazonRDS/latest/UserGuide/db2-troubleshooting.md
+++ b//AmazonRDS/latest/UserGuide/db2-troubleshooting.md
@@ -177,0 +178 @@ Databases |  rdsadmin.activate_database errors
+Databases |  rdsadmin.backup_database errors  
@@ -268,0 +270,40 @@ The following error message indicates that you tried to alter a tablespace.
+### rdsadmin.backup_database errors
+
+The following errors can occur when you call the [rdsadmin.backup_database](./db2-sp-managing-databases.html#db2-sp-backup-database) stored procedure.
+
+Error | Error message  
+---|---  
+Insufficient disk space |  `Aborting task. Reason Backing up your database failed because of insufficient disk space. Increase the storage for your DB instance and rerun the rdsadmin.backup_database stored procedure.`  
+Internal error |  `Caught exception during executing task id 104, Aborting task. Reason Internal Error`  
+  
+**Insufficient disk space**
+
+The following error message indicates that your DB instance has insufficient disk space to back up your database:
+    
+    
+    Aborting task. Reason Backing up your database failed because of insufficient disk space. Increase the storage for your DB instance and rerun the rdsadmin.backup_database stored procedure.
+
+When backing up a database to remote storage, make sure that you have sufficient free disk space for the backup session and the working files. Each backup session processes up to 5 GB of data, but additional space is needed for transaction logs, temporary files, and ongoing database operations. 
+
+We recommend that you have the following free disk space for backups based on the database size:
+
+  * For databases under 5 GB – The database size + 3 GB buffer
+
+  * For databases 5 GB and larger – At least 10 GB of free space
+
+
+
+
+This amount of free disk space accounts for backup session processing, transaction log accumulation during backup, temporary working files, and parallel backup streams if configured. For more information, see [Increasing DB instance storage capacity](./USER_PIOPS.ModifyingExisting.html).
+
+Increase your disk space and then call the [rdsadmin.backup_database](./db2-sp-managing-databases.html#db2-sp-backup-database) stored procedure again. To confirm that the database was backed up correctly, check the task status by using [rdsadmin.get_task_status](./db2-user-defined-functions.html#db2-udf-get-task-status). You can also verify that the backup files exist in your Amazon S3 bucket under `s3_prefix/dbi_resource_id/db_name`.
+
+**Internal error**
+
+The following error message indicates that the stored procedure encountered an internal error: 
+    
+    
+    Caught exception during executing task id 104, Aborting task. Reason Internal Error
+
+Contact [AWS Support](https://aws.amazon.com/premiumsupport/).
+