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Snapshot

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Snapshot - Amazon FSx

A snapshot of an Amazon FSx for OpenZFS volume.

Contents

AdministrativeActions

A list of administrative actions for the file system that are in process or waiting to be processed. Administrative actions describe changes to the Amazon FSx system.

Type: Array of AdministrativeAction objects

Array Members: Maximum number of 50 items.

Required: No

CreationTime

The time that the resource was created, in seconds (since 1970-01-01T00:00:00Z), also known as Unix time.

Type: Timestamp

Required: No

Lifecycle

The lifecycle status of the snapshot.

  • PENDING - Amazon FSx hasn't started creating the snapshot.

  • CREATING - Amazon FSx is creating the snapshot.

  • DELETING - Amazon FSx is deleting the snapshot.

  • AVAILABLE - The snapshot is fully available.

Type: String

Valid Values: PENDING | CREATING | DELETING | AVAILABLE

Required: No

LifecycleTransitionReason

Describes why a resource lifecycle state changed.

Type: LifecycleTransitionReason object

Required: No

Name

The name of the snapshot.

Type: String

Length Constraints: Minimum length of 1. Maximum length of 203.

Pattern: ^[a-zA-Z0-9_:.-]{1,203}$

Required: No

ResourceARN

The Amazon Resource Name (ARN) for a given resource. ARNs uniquely identify AWS resources. We require an ARN when you need to specify a resource unambiguously across all of AWS. For more information, see Amazon Resource Names (ARNs) in the AWS General Reference.

Type: String

Length Constraints: Minimum length of 8. Maximum length of 512.

Pattern: ^arn:(?=[^:]+:fsx:[^:]+:\d{12}:)((|(?=[a-z0-9-.]{1,63})(?!\d{1,3}(\.\d{1,3}){3})(?![^:]*-{2})(?![^:]*-\.)(?![^:]*\.-)[a-z0-9].*(?<!-)):){4}(?!/).{0,1024}$

Required: No

SnapshotId

The ID of the snapshot.

Type: String

Length Constraints: Minimum length of 11. Maximum length of 28.

Pattern: ^((fs)?volsnap-[0-9a-f]{8,})$

Required: No

Tags

A list of Tag values, with a maximum of 50 elements.

Type: Array of Tag objects

Array Members: Minimum number of 1 item. Maximum number of 50 items.

Required: No

VolumeId

The ID of the volume that the snapshot is of.

Type: String

Length Constraints: Fixed length of 23.

Pattern: ^(fsvol-[0-9a-f]{17,})$

Required: No

See Also

For more information about using this API in one of the language-specific AWS SDKs, see the following:

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