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Important
Legacy Backup Deprecated

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:

Note

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.

Tip

Base URL: https://cloud.mongodb.com/api/atlas/v1.0

DELETE /groups/{GROUP-ID}/clusters/{CLUSTER-NAME}/snapshots/{SNAPSHOT-ID}
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.

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:

status
HTTP response code
envelope
Expected response body
false

This endpoint does not use HTTP request body parameters.

This endpoint does not have response elements.

curl -X DELETE -i -u "{PUBLIC-KEY}:{PRIVATE-KEY}" --digest "https://cloud.mongodb.com/api/atlas/v1.0/groups/6c7498dg87d9e6526801572b/clusters/Cluster0/snapshots/6b5380e6jvn128560506942b"

This endpoint doesn't return a response body.

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