CopySnapshot - Amazon Lightsail

CopySnapshot

Copies a manual snapshot of an instance or disk as another manual snapshot, or copies an automatic snapshot of an instance or disk as a manual snapshot. This operation can also be used to copy a manual or automatic snapshot of an instance or a disk from one AWS Region to another in Amazon Lightsail.

When copying a manual snapshot, be sure to define the source region, source snapshot name, and target snapshot name parameters.

When copying an automatic snapshot, be sure to define the source region, source resource name, target snapshot name, and either the restore date or the use latest restorable auto snapshot parameters.

Request Syntax

{ "restoreDate": "string", "sourceRegion": "string", "sourceResourceName": "string", "sourceSnapshotName": "string", "targetSnapshotName": "string", "useLatestRestorableAutoSnapshot": boolean }

Request Parameters

For information about the parameters that are common to all actions, see Common Parameters.

The request accepts the following data in JSON format.

restoreDate

The date of the source automatic snapshot to copy. Use the get auto snapshots operation to identify the dates of the available automatic snapshots.

Constraints:

  • Must be specified in YYYY-MM-DD format.

  • This parameter cannot be defined together with the use latest restorable auto snapshot parameter. The restore date and use latest restorable auto snapshot parameters are mutually exclusive.

  • Define this parameter only when copying an automatic snapshot as a manual snapshot. For more information, see the Amazon Lightsail Developer Guide.

Type: String

Required: No

sourceRegion

The AWS Region where the source manual or automatic snapshot is located.

Type: String

Valid Values: us-east-1 | us-east-2 | us-west-1 | us-west-2 | eu-west-1 | eu-west-2 | eu-west-3 | eu-central-1 | ca-central-1 | ap-south-1 | ap-southeast-1 | ap-southeast-2 | ap-northeast-1 | ap-northeast-2 | eu-north-1

Required: Yes

sourceResourceName

The name of the source instance or disk from which the source automatic snapshot was created.

Constraint:

Type: String

Required: No

sourceSnapshotName

The name of the source manual snapshot to copy.

Constraint:

  • Define this parameter only when copying a manual snapshot as another manual snapshot.

Type: String

Pattern: \w[\w\-]*\w

Required: No

targetSnapshotName

The name of the new manual snapshot to be created as a copy.

Type: String

Pattern: \w[\w\-]*\w

Required: Yes

useLatestRestorableAutoSnapshot

A Boolean value to indicate whether to use the latest available automatic snapshot of the specified source instance or disk.

Constraints:

  • This parameter cannot be defined together with the restore date parameter. The use latest restorable auto snapshot and restore date parameters are mutually exclusive.

  • Define this parameter only when copying an automatic snapshot as a manual snapshot. For more information, see the Amazon Lightsail Developer Guide.

Type: Boolean

Required: No

Response Syntax

{ "operations": [ { "createdAt": number, "errorCode": "string", "errorDetails": "string", "id": "string", "isTerminal": boolean, "location": { "availabilityZone": "string", "regionName": "string" }, "operationDetails": "string", "operationType": "string", "resourceName": "string", "resourceType": "string", "status": "string", "statusChangedAt": number } ] }

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.

operations

An array of objects that describe the result of the action, such as the status of the request, the timestamp of the request, and the resources affected by the request.

Type: Array of Operation objects

Errors

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

AccessDeniedException

Lightsail throws this exception when the user cannot be authenticated or uses invalid credentials to access a resource.

HTTP Status Code: 400

AccountSetupInProgressException

Lightsail throws this exception when an account is still in the setup in progress state.

HTTP Status Code: 400

InvalidInputException

Lightsail throws this exception when user input does not conform to the validation rules of an input field.

Note

Domain and distribution APIs are only available in the N. Virginia (us-east-1) AWS Region. Please set your AWS Region configuration to us-east-1 to create, view, or edit these resources.

HTTP Status Code: 400

NotFoundException

Lightsail throws this exception when it cannot find a resource.

HTTP Status Code: 400

OperationFailureException

Lightsail throws this exception when an operation fails to execute.

HTTP Status Code: 400

ServiceException

A general service exception.

HTTP Status Code: 500

UnauthenticatedException

Lightsail throws this exception when the user has not been authenticated.

HTTP Status Code: 400

Examples

In the following example or examples, the Authorization header contents (AUTHPARAMS) must be replaced with an AWS Signature Version 4 signature. For more information about creating these signatures, see Signature Version 4 Signing Process in the AWS General Reference.

You need to learn how to sign HTTP requests only if you intend to manually create them. When you use the AWS Command Line Interface (AWS CLI) or one of the AWS SDKs to make requests to AWS, these tools automatically sign the requests for you with the access key that you specify when you configure the tools. When you use these tools, you don't need to learn how to sign requests yourself.

Copy an automatic snapshot

The following example creates a new manual snapshot named CopiedAutoSnapshot-2019-09-25 as a copy of the existing automatic snapshot named 2019-09-25 from the WordPress-1 instance in the us-west-2 AWS Region.

Sample Request

POST / HTTP/1.1 Host: lightsail.us-west-2.amazonaws.com Accept-Encoding: identity X-Amz-Target: Lightsail_20161128.CopySnapshot Content-Type: application/x-amz-json-1.1 User-Agent: AGENT X-Amz-Date: 20190927T194244Z Authorization: AUTHPARAMS Content-Length: 150 { "sourceResourceName": "WordPress-1", "restoreDate": "2019-09-25", "targetSnapshotName": "CopiedAutoSnapshot-2019-09-25", "sourceRegion": "us-west-2" }

Sample Response

HTTP/1.1 200 OK Server: Server Date: Fri, 27 Sep 2019 19:42:46 GMT Content-Type: application/x-amz-json-1.1 Content-Length: 380 x-amzn-RequestId: 69449102-9023-431e-8a00-7EXAMPLE6970 Connection: keep-alive { "operations": [{ "createdAt": 1.56961336589E9, "id": "0710de23-b848-4146-887d-ec12093c049d", "isTerminal": false, "location": { "availabilityZone": "all", "regionName": "us-west-2" }, "operationDetails": "us-west-2:WordPress-1", "operationType": "CopySnapshot", "resourceName": "CopiedAutoSnapshot-2019-09-25", "resourceType": "InstanceSnapshot", "status": "Started", "statusChangedAt": 1.56961336589E9 }] }

Copy a manual snapshot

The following example creates a new manual snapshot named CopiedManualSnapshot-2019-09-25 as a copy of the existing manual snapshot named WordPress-1-1569608575 in the us-west-2 AWS Region.

Sample Request

POST / HTTP/1.1 Host: lightsail.us-west-2.amazonaws.com Accept-Encoding: identity X-Amz-Target: Lightsail_20161128.CopySnapshot Content-Type: application/x-amz-json-1.1 User-Agent: AGENT X-Amz-Date: 20190927T195200Z Authorization: AUTHPARAMS Content-Length: 134 { "sourceSnapshotName": "WordPress-1-1569608575", "targetSnapshotName": "CopiedManualSnapshot-2019-09-25", "sourceRegion": "us-west-2" }

Sample Response

HTTP/1.1 200 OK Server: Server Date: Fri, 27 Sep 2019 19:52:01 GMT Content-Type: application/x-amz-json-1.1 Content-Length: 395 x-amzn-RequestId: 5e3e211b-0afe-439e-bead-8EXAMPLEb3c8 Connection: keep-alive { "operations": [{ "createdAt": 1.569613921044E9, "id": "0d4f2d2a-78ce-44d1-82fe-33588af9afa0", "isTerminal": false, "location": { "availabilityZone": "all", "regionName": "us-west-2" }, "operationDetails": "us-west-2:WordPress-1-1569608575", "operationType": "CopySnapshot", "resourceName": "CopiedManualSnapshot-2019-09-25", "resourceType": "InstanceSnapshot", "status": "Started", "statusChangedAt": 1.569613921044E9 }] }

See Also

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