Take One On-Demand Snapshot
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Groups and projects are synonymous terms. Your {GROUP-ID} is the
same as your project ID. For existing groups, your group/project ID
remains the same. The resource and corresponding endpoints use the
term groups.
The Atlas Administration API authenticates using HTTP Digest Authentication. Provide a programmatic API public key and corresponding private key as the username and password when constructing the HTTP request. To learn how to configure API access for an Atlas project, see Get Started with the Atlas Administration API.
Take one on-demand snapshot. Atlas takes on-demand snapshots immediately, unlike scheduled snapshots which occur at regular intervals. If there is already an on-demand snapshot with a status of queued or inProgress, you must wait until Atlas has completed the on-demand snapshot before taking another.
Required Roles
You must grant your API Key the Project Owner role
to successfully call this endpoint.
All requests to this endpoint must originate from an IP address in the organization's API access list.
Resource
Base URL: https://cloud.mongodb.com/api/atlas/v1.0
POST /groups/{GROUP-ID}/clusters/{CLUSTER-NAME}/backup/snapshots
Request
Path Parameters
Path Element | Type | Necessity | Description |
|---|---|---|---|
GROUP-ID | string | Required | Unique identifier of the project for the
Atlas cluster. |
CLUSTER-NAME | string | Required | Name of the Atlas cluster that contains the snapshots
you want to retrieve. |
Query Parameters
This endpoint might use any of the HTTP request query parameters available to all Atlas Administration API resources. All of these are optional.
Name | Type | Necessity | Description | Default | ||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
pretty | boolean | Optional | Flag indicating whether the response body should be in a
prettyprint format. | false | ||||||
envelope | boolean | Optional | Flag indicating if Atlas should wrap the response in a JSON envelope. This option may be needed for some API clients. These clients cannot access the HTTP response headers or status code. To remediate this, set envelope=true in the query. For endpoints that return one result, the response body includes:
| false |
Body Parameters
Path Element | Type | Necessity | Description |
|---|---|---|---|
description | string | Required | Description of the on-demand snapshot. |
retentionInDays | number | Required | Number of days that Atlas should retain the on-demand
snapshot. Must be at least 1 . |
Response
Name | Type | Description |
|---|---|---|
cloudProvider | string | Cloud provider that stores this snapshot. Atlas returns this
parameter when "type": "replicaSet". |
createdAt | string | Timestamp in ISO 8601 date and time format in UTC when Atlas took the snapshot. Atlas sorts
the results document in descending order based on this date. |
description | string | Description of the snapshot. Atlas returns this
parameter when "status": "onDemand". |
expiresAt | string | Timestamp in ISO 8601 date and time format in UTC when Atlas deletes the snapshot. |
frequencyType | string | Human-readable label that indicates the rate at which the backup policy item occurs. Value can be
one of the following: ondemand, hourly, daily,
weekly, or monthly. |
id | string | Unique identifier of the snapshot. |
links | array | One or more links to sub-resources and/or related resources. The relations between URLs are explained in the Web Linking Specification |
masterKeyUUID | string | Unique identifier of the AWS KMS Customer Master Key used to
encrypt the snapshot. Atlas returns this value for clusters
using Encryption at Rest via Customer KMS. |
members | array of objects | List of snapshots and the cloud provider where the snapshots are
stored. Atlas returns this parameter when "type": "shardedCluster". |
members[n] .cloudProvider | string | Cloud provider that stores this snapshot. |
members[n].id | string | Unique identifier for the sharded cluster snapshot. |
members[n].replicaSetName | string | Label given to a shard or config server from which Atlas
took this snapshot. |
mongodVersion | string | Version of the MongoDB server. |
policyItems | array of strings | List that contains unique identifiers for each backup policy item. |
replicaSetName | string | Label given to the replica set from which Atlas took this
snapshot. Atlas returns this parameter when
"type": "replicaSet". |
snapshotIds | array of strings | Unique identifiers of the snapshots created for the shards and
config server for a sharded cluster. Atlas returns this
parameter when "type": "shardedCluster". These identifiers
should match those given in the members[n].id parameters.
This allows you to map a snapshot to its shard or config server
name. |
snapshotType | string | Type of snapshot. Atlas can return onDemand or
scheduled. |
status | string | Current status of the snapshot. Atlas can return one of the following values:
|
storageSizeBytes | integer | Size of the snapshot in bytes. |
type | string | Type of cluster. Atlas can return replicaSet or
shardedCluster. |
Example Request
1 curl --user "{PUBLIC-KEY}:{PRIVATE-KEY}" \ 2 --digest --include \ 3 --header "Accept: application/json" \ 4 --header "Content-Type: application/json" \ 5 --request POST "https://cloud.mongodb.com/api/atlas/v1.0/groups/{GROUP-ID}/clusters/{CLUSTER-NAME}/backup/snapshots?pretty=true" \ 6 --data '{ 7 "description": "On Demand Snapshot", 8 "retentionInDays": 5 9 }'
Example Response
Response Header
401 Unauthorized Content-Type: application/json;charset=ISO-8859-1 Date: {dateInUnixFormat} WWW-Authenticate: Digest realm="MMS Public API", domain="", nonce="{nonce}", algorithm=MD5, op="auth", stale=false Content-Length: {requestLengthInBytes} Connection: keep-alive
200 OK Vary: Accept-Encoding Content-Type: application/json Strict-Transport-Security: max-age=300 Date: {dateInUnixFormat} Connection: keep-alive Content-Length: {requestLengthInBytes}