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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
See also:

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

PATCH /groups/{GROUP-ID}/clusters/{CLUSTER-NAME}/backup/schedule
Parameter
Type
Description
GROUP-ID
string
Unique identifier of the project for the Atlas cluster.
CLUSTER-NAME
string
Name of the Atlas cluster that contains the snapshot you want to retrieve.

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
Name
Type
Necessity
Description
autoExportEnabled
boolean
Optional
Specify true to enable automatic export of cloud backup snapshots to the AWS bucket. You must also define the export policy using export. If omitted, defaults to false.
export
document
Optional
Export policy for automatically exporting cloud backup snapshots to AWS bucket.
export.exportBucketId
string
Required
Unique identifier of the AWS bucket to export the cloud backup snapshot to. If necessary, use the Get All Snapshot Export Buckets API to retrieve the IDs of all available export buckets for a project.
export.frequencyType
string
Required
Frequency associated with the export policy. Value must be monthly.
policies[]
array
Required
Array containing a document for each backup policy item in the desired updated backup policy.
policies[i]
.id
string
Required
Unique identifier of the backup policy that you want to update.
policies[i]
.policyItems[]
array
Required
Array of backup policy items. Array can be empty, but not null.
policies[i]
.policyItems[n]
.frequencyInterval
number
Required

Desired frequency of the new backup policy item specified by frequencyType. A value of 1 specifies the first instance of the corresponding frequencyType.

Example
  • In a monthly policy item, 1 indicates that the monthly snapshot occurs on the first day of the month.
  • In a weekly policy item, 1 indicates that the weekly snapshot occurs on Monday.

The following frequency values are valid:

  • Hourly: 1, 2,, 4, 6, 8, and 12.

    Note

    The only accepted value you can set for frequency interval with NVMe clusters is 12.

  • Daily: 1
  • Weekly: 1 through 7, where 1 is Monday and 7 is Sunday.
  • Monthly: 1 through 28 and 40, where 1 is the first day of the month and 40 is the last day of the month.
policies[i]
.policyItems[n]
.frequencyType
string
Required

Frequency associated with the backup policy item. One of the following values: hourly, daily, weekly or monthly.

Note

You cannot specify multiple hourly and daily backup policy items.

policies[i]
.policyItems[n]
.id
string
Required
Unique identifier of the backup policy item.
policies[i]
.policyItems[n]
.retentionUnit
string
Required
Scope of the backup policy item: days, weeks, or months.
policies[i]
.policyItems[n]
.retentionValue
string
Required

Value to associate with retentionUnit.

Note

Atlas requires that the value specified for retentionValue for less frequent policy items be equal to or larger than the value specified for more frequent policy items. For example, if the hourly policy item specifies a retention of two days, the retention for the weekly policy item must be two days or greater.

referenceHourOfDay
number
Optional
UTC Hour of day between 0 and 23, inclusive, representing which hour of the day that Atlas takes snapshots for backup policy items.
referenceMinuteOfHour
number
Optional
UTC Minutes after referenceHourOfDay that Atlas takes snapshots for backup policy items. Must be between 0 and 59, inclusive.
restoreWindowDays
number
Optional

Number of days back in time you can restore to with Continuous Cloud Backup accuracy. Must be a positive, non-zero integer.

Applies to continuous cloud backups only.

updateSnapshots
boolean
Optional
Specify true to apply the retention changes in the updated backup policy to snapshots that Atlas took previously.
useOrgAndGroupNamesInExportPrefix
boolean
Optional
Specify true to use organization and project names instead of organization and project UUIDs in the path for the metadata files that Atlas uploads to your S3 bucket after it finishes exporting the snapshots. To learn more about the metadata files that Atlas uploads, see Export Cloud Backup Snapshot.
Name
Type
Description
autoExportEnabled
boolean

Flag that indicates whether automatic export of cloud backup snapshots to the AWS bucket is enabled. Value can be one of the following:

  • true - enables automatic export of cloud backup snapshots to the AWS bucket
  • false - disables automatic export of cloud backup snapshots to the AWS bucket (default)
clusterId
string
Unique identifier of the Atlas cluster.
clusterName
string
Name of the Atlas cluster.
export
document
Export policy for automatically exporting cloud backup snapshots to AWS bucket.
export.exportBucketId
string
Unique identifier of the AWS bucket to export the cloud backup snapshot to.
export.frequencyType
string
Frequency associated with the export policy. Value is monthly.
links
array

One or more links to sub-resources and/or related resources. The relations between URLs are explained in the Web Linking Specification

nextSnapshot
string
Timestamp in the number of seconds that have elapsed since the UNIX epoch when Atlas takes the next snapshot.
policies[]
array
Unique identifier for the snapshot and an array of backup policy items.
policies[i]
.id
string
Unique identifier of the backup policy.
policies[i]
.policyItems[]
array
Array of backup policy items.
policies[i]
.policyItems[n]
.frequencyInterval
number
Desired frequency of the new backup policy item specified by frequencyType.
policies[i]
.policyItems[n]
.frequencyType
string
Frequency associated with the backup policy item. One of the following values: hourly, daily, weekly or monthly.
policies[i]
.policyItems[n]
.id
string
Unique identifier of the backup policy item.
policies[i]
.policyItems[n]
.retentionUnit
string
Metric of duration of the backup policy item: days, weeks, or months.
policies[i]
.policyItems[n]
.retentionValue
number
Duration for which the backup is kept. Associated with retentionUnit.
referenceHourOfDay
number
UTC Hour of day between 0 and 23 representing which hour of the day that Atlas takes a snapshot.
referenceMinuteOfHour
number
UTC Minute of day between 0 and 59 representing which minute of the referenceHourOfDay that Atlas takes the snapshot.
restoreWindowDays
number

Number of days back in time you can restore to with Continuous Cloud Backup accuracy. Must be a positive, non-zero integer.

Applies to continuous cloud backups only.

updateSnapshots
boolean
Flag indicating if updates to retention in the backup policy were applied to snapshots that Atlas took earlier. If set to true, the retention changes were applied to earlier snapshots.
useOrgAndGroupNamesInExportPrefix
boolean

Specifies whether to use organization and project names instead of organization and project UUIDs in the path to the metadata files that Atlas uploads to your S3 bucket after it finishes exporting the snapshots. Value can be one of the following:

  • true - to use organization and project names
  • false - to use organization and project UUIDs (default)
1curl --user "{PUBLIC-KEY}:{PRIVATE-KEY}" --digest --include \
2 --header "Accept: application/json" \
3 --header "Content-Type: application/json" \
4 --request PATCH "https://cloud.mongodb.com/api/atlas/v1.0/groups/5b6212af90dc76637950a2c6/clusters/MyCluster/backup/schedule" \
5 --data '
6 {
7 "referenceHourOfDay": 12,
8 "referenceMinuteOfHour": 30,
9 "policies": [
10 {
11 "id": "5c95242c87d9d636e70c28ef",
12 "policyItems": [
13 {
14 "id": "5c95242c87d9d636e70c28f0",
15 "frequencyType": "hourly",
16 "frequencyInterval": 6,
17 "retentionValue": 2,
18 "retentionUnit": "days"
19 },
20 {
21 "id": "5c95242c87d9d636e70c28f2",
22 "frequencyType": "weekly",
23 "frequencyInterval": 1,
24 "retentionValue": 3,
25 "retentionUnit": "weeks"
26 }
27 ]
28 }
29 ],
30 "updateSnapshots": true,
31 "autoExportEnabled" : true,
32 "export": {
33 "frequencyType": "monthly",
34 "exportBucketId": "604f6322dc786a5341d4f7fb"
35 }
36 }'
1{
2 "autoExportEnabled": true,
3 "clusterId" : "5c94f6ea80eef5617167224d",
4 "clusterName" : "MyCluster",
5 "export": {
6 "exportBucketId": "604f6322dc786a5341d4f7fb",
7 "frequencyType": "monthly"
8 },
9 "links" : [ {
10 "href" : "https://cloud.mongodb.com/api/atlas/v1.0/groups/5b6212af90dc76637950a2c6/clusters/MyCluster/backup/schedule",
11 "rel" : "self"
12 }, {
13 "href" : "https://cloud.mongodb.com/api/atlas/v1.0/groups/5b6212af90dc76637950a2c6",
14 "rel" : "http://mms.mongodb.com/group"
15 } ],
16 "nextSnapshot" : "2019-04-03T18:30:08Z",
17 "policies" : [ {
18 "id" : "5c95242c87d9d636e70c28ef",
19 "policyItems" : [ {
20 "frequencyInterval" : 6,
21 "frequencyType" : "hourly",
22 "id" : "5c95242c87d9d636e70c28f0",
23 "retentionUnit" : "days",
24 "retentionValue" : 2
25 }, {
26 "frequencyInterval" : 1,
27 "frequencyType" : "weekly",
28 "id" : "5c95242c87d9d636e70c28f2",
29 "retentionUnit" : "weeks",
30 "retentionValue" : 3
31 } ]
32 } ],
33 "referenceHourOfDay" : 12,
34 "referenceMinuteOfHour" : 30,
35 "useOrgAndGroupNamesInExportPrefix" : false
36}
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