Request Syntax URI Request Parameters Request Body Response Syntax Response Elements Errors See Also

DescribeRecoveryPoint

Returns metadata associated with a recovery point, including ID, status, encryption, and lifecycle.

Request Syntax


GET /backup-vaults/backupVaultName/recovery-points/recoveryPointArn?backupVaultAccountId=BackupVaultAccountId HTTP/1.1

URI Request Parameters

The request uses the following URI parameters.

BackupVaultAccountId

The account ID of the specified backup vault.

Pattern: ^[0-9]{12}$

backupVaultName

The name of a logical container where backups are stored. Backup vaults are identified by names that are unique to the account used to create them and the AWS Region where they are created.

Pattern: ^[a-zA-Z0-9\-\_]{2,50}$

Required: Yes

recoveryPointArn

An Amazon Resource Name (ARN) that uniquely identifies a recovery point; for example, arn:aws:backup:us-east-1:123456789012:recovery-point:1EB3B5E7-9EB0-435A-A80B-108B488B0D45.

Required: Yes

Request Body

The request does not have a request body.

Response Syntax


HTTP/1.1 200
Content-type: application/json

{
   "BackupSizeInBytes": number,
   "BackupVaultArn": "string",
   "BackupVaultName": "string",
   "CalculatedLifecycle": { 
      "DeleteAt": number,
      "MoveToColdStorageAt": number
   },
   "CompletionDate": number,
   "CompositeMemberIdentifier": "string",
   "CreatedBy": { 
      "BackupPlanArn": "string",
      "BackupPlanId": "string",
      "BackupPlanVersion": "string",
      "BackupRuleId": "string"
   },
   "CreationDate": number,
   "EncryptionKeyArn": "string",
   "IamRoleArn": "string",
   "IsEncrypted": boolean,
   "IsParent": boolean,
   "LastRestoreTime": number,
   "Lifecycle": { 
      "DeleteAfterDays": number,
      "MoveToColdStorageAfterDays": number,
      "OptInToArchiveForSupportedResources": boolean
   },
   "ParentRecoveryPointArn": "string",
   "RecoveryPointArn": "string",
   "ResourceArn": "string",
   "ResourceName": "string",
   "ResourceType": "string",
   "SourceBackupVaultArn": "string",
   "Status": "string",
   "StatusMessage": "string",
   "StorageClass": "string",
   "VaultType": "string"
}

Response Elements

If the action is successful, the service sends back an HTTP 200 response.

The following data is returned in JSON format by the service.

BackupSizeInBytes

The size, in bytes, of a backup.

Type: Long

BackupVaultArn

An ARN that uniquely identifies a backup vault; for example, arn:aws:backup:us-east-1:123456789012:backup-vault:aBackupVault.

Type: String

BackupVaultName

The name of a logical container where backups are stored. Backup vaults are identified by names that are unique to the account used to create them and the Region where they are created.

Type: String

Pattern: ^[a-zA-Z0-9\-\_]{2,50}$

CalculatedLifecycle

A CalculatedLifecycle object containing DeleteAt and MoveToColdStorageAt timestamps.

Type: CalculatedLifecycle object

CompletionDate

The date and time that a job to create a recovery point is completed, in Unix format and Coordinated Universal Time (UTC). The value of CompletionDate is accurate to milliseconds. For example, the value 1516925490.087 represents Friday, January 26, 2018 12:11:30.087 AM.

Type: Timestamp

CompositeMemberIdentifier

The identifier of a resource within a composite group, such as nested (child) recovery point belonging to a composite (parent) stack. The ID is transferred from the logical ID within a stack.

Type: String

CreatedBy

Contains identifying information about the creation of a recovery point, including the BackupPlanArn, BackupPlanId, BackupPlanVersion, and BackupRuleId of the backup plan used to create it.

Type: RecoveryPointCreator object

CreationDate

The date and time that a recovery point is created, in Unix format and Coordinated Universal Time (UTC). The value of CreationDate is accurate to milliseconds. For example, the value 1516925490.087 represents Friday, January 26, 2018 12:11:30.087 AM.

Type: Timestamp

EncryptionKeyArn

The server-side encryption key used to protect your backups; for example, arn:aws:kms:us-west-2:111122223333:key/1234abcd-12ab-34cd-56ef-1234567890ab.

Type: String

IamRoleArn

Specifies the IAM role ARN used to create the target recovery point; for example, arn:aws:iam::123456789012:role/S3Access.

Type: String

IsEncrypted

A Boolean value that is returned as TRUE if the specified recovery point is encrypted, or FALSE if the recovery point is not encrypted.

Type: Boolean

IsParent

This returns the boolean value that a recovery point is a parent (composite) job.

Type: Boolean

LastRestoreTime

The date and time that a recovery point was last restored, in Unix format and Coordinated Universal Time (UTC). The value of LastRestoreTime is accurate to milliseconds. For example, the value 1516925490.087 represents Friday, January 26, 2018 12:11:30.087 AM.

Type: Timestamp

Lifecycle

The lifecycle defines when a protected resource is transitioned to cold storage and when it expires. AWS Backup transitions and expires backups automatically according to the lifecycle that you define.

Backups that are transitioned to cold storage must be stored in cold storage for a minimum of 90 days. Therefore, the “retention” setting must be 90 days greater than the “transition to cold after days” setting. The “transition to cold after days” setting cannot be changed after a backup has been transitioned to cold.

Resource types that can transition to cold storage are listed in the Feature availability by resource table. AWS Backup ignores this expression for other resource types.

Type: Lifecycle object

ParentRecoveryPointArn

This is an ARN that uniquely identifies a parent (composite) recovery point; for example, arn:aws:backup:us-east-1:123456789012:recovery-point:1EB3B5E7-9EB0-435A-A80B-108B488B0D45.

Type: String

RecoveryPointArn

An ARN that uniquely identifies a recovery point; for example, arn:aws:backup:us-east-1:123456789012:recovery-point:1EB3B5E7-9EB0-435A-A80B-108B488B0D45.

Type: String

ResourceArn

An ARN that uniquely identifies a saved resource. The format of the ARN depends on the resource type.

Type: String

ResourceName

The name of the resource that belongs to the specified backup.

Type: String

ResourceType

The type of AWS resource to save as a recovery point; for example, an Amazon Elastic Block Store (Amazon EBS) volume or an Amazon Relational Database Service (Amazon RDS) database.

Type: String

Pattern: ^[a-zA-Z0-9\-\_\.]{1,50}$

SourceBackupVaultArn

An Amazon Resource Name (ARN) that uniquely identifies the source vault where the resource was originally backed up in; for example, arn:aws:backup:us-east-1:123456789012:backup-vault:aBackupVault. If the recovery is restored to the same AWS account or Region, this value will be null.

Type: String

Status

A status code specifying the state of the recovery point.

PARTIAL status indicates AWS Backup could not create the recovery point before the backup window closed. To increase your backup plan window using the API, see UpdateBackupPlan. You can also increase your backup plan window using the Console by choosing and editing your backup plan.

EXPIRED status indicates that the recovery point has exceeded its retention period, but AWS Backup lacks permission or is otherwise unable to delete it. To manually delete these recovery points, see Step 3: Delete the recovery points in the Clean up resources section of Getting started.

STOPPED status occurs on a continuous backup where a user has taken some action that causes the continuous backup to be disabled. This can be caused by the removal of permissions, turning off versioning, turning off events being sent to EventBridge, or disabling the EventBridge rules that are put in place by AWS Backup. For recovery points of Amazon S3, Amazon RDS, and Amazon Aurora resources, this status occurs when the retention period of a continuous backup rule is changed.

To resolve STOPPED status, ensure that all requested permissions are in place and that versioning is enabled on the S3 bucket. Once these conditions are met, the next instance of a backup rule running will result in a new continuous recovery point being created. The recovery points with STOPPED status do not need to be deleted.

For SAP HANA on Amazon EC2 STOPPED status occurs due to user action, application misconfiguration, or backup failure. To ensure that future continuous backups succeed, refer to the recovery point status and check SAP HANA for details.

Type: String

Valid Values: COMPLETED | PARTIAL | DELETING | EXPIRED

StatusMessage

A status message explaining the status of the recovery point.

Type: String

StorageClass

Specifies the storage class of the recovery point. Valid values are WARM or COLD.

Type: String

Valid Values: WARM | COLD | DELETED

VaultType

The type of vault in which the described recovery point is stored.

Type: String

Valid Values: BACKUP_VAULT | LOGICALLY_AIR_GAPPED_BACKUP_VAULT

Errors

For information about the errors that are common to all actions, see Common Errors.

InvalidParameterValueException

Indicates that something is wrong with a parameter's value. For example, the value is out of range.

HTTP Status Code: 400

MissingParameterValueException

Indicates that a required parameter is missing.

HTTP Status Code: 400

ResourceNotFoundException

A resource that is required for the action doesn't exist.

HTTP Status Code: 400

ServiceUnavailableException

The request failed due to a temporary failure of the server.

HTTP Status Code: 500