Delete a Snapshot
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Effective 23 March 2020, all new clusters can only use Cloud Backups.
When you upgrade from 4.0 to 4.2, your backup system upgrades to cloud backup if it is currently set to legacy backup. After this upgrade:
- All your existing legacy backup snapshots remain available. They expire over time in accordance with your retention policy.
- Your backup policy resets to the default schedule. If you had a custom backup policy in place with legacy backups, you must re-create it with the procedure outlined in the Cloud Backup documentation.
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.
All requests to this endpoint must originate from an IP address in the organization's API access list.
Request
Base URL: https://cloud.mongodb.com/api/atlas/v1.0
DELETE /groups/{GROUP-ID}/clusters/{CLUSTER-NAME}/snapshots/{SNAPSHOT-ID}
Request Parameters
Request Path Parameters
Path Element | Necessity | Description |
|---|---|---|
GROUP-ID | Required | The unique identifier of the project that owns
the snapshots. |
CLUSTER-NAME | Required | The name of the cluster that contains the snapshots that you want
to retrieve. |
SNAPSHOT-ID | Required | The ID of the snapshot that you want to delete. |
Request 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 |
Request Body Parameters
This endpoint does not use HTTP request body parameters.
Response Elements
This endpoint does not have response elements.
Examples
Example Request
curl -X DELETE -i -u "{PUBLIC-KEY}:{PRIVATE-KEY}" --digest "https://cloud.mongodb.com/api/atlas/v1.0/groups/6c7498dg87d9e6526801572b/clusters/Cluster0/snapshots/6b5380e6jvn128560506942b"
Example Response
This endpoint doesn't return a response body.