CreateDBSnapshot - Amazon Relational Database Service

CreateDBSnapshot

Creates a snapshot of a DB instance. The source DB instance must be in the available or storage-optimization state.

Request Parameters

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

DBInstanceIdentifier

The identifier of the DB instance that you want to create the snapshot of.

Constraints:

  • Must match the identifier of an existing DBInstance.

Type: String

Required: Yes

DBSnapshotIdentifier

The identifier for the DB snapshot.

Constraints:

  • Can't be null, empty, or blank

  • Must contain from 1 to 255 letters, numbers, or hyphens

  • First character must be a letter

  • Can't end with a hyphen or contain two consecutive hyphens

Example: my-snapshot-id

Type: String

Required: Yes

Tags.Tag.N

A list of tags. For more information, see Tagging Amazon RDS Resources in the Amazon RDS User Guide.

Type: Array of Tag objects

Required: No

Response Elements

The following element is returned by the service.

DBSnapshot

Contains the details of an Amazon RDS DB snapshot.

This data type is used as a response element in the DescribeDBSnapshots action.

Type: DBSnapshot object

Errors

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

DBInstanceNotFound

DBInstanceIdentifier doesn't refer to an existing DB instance.

HTTP Status Code: 404

DBSnapshotAlreadyExists

DBSnapshotIdentifier is already used by an existing snapshot.

HTTP Status Code: 400

InvalidDBInstanceState

The DB instance isn't in a valid state.

HTTP Status Code: 400

SnapshotQuotaExceeded

The request would result in the user exceeding the allowed number of DB snapshots.

HTTP Status Code: 400

Examples

Example

This example illustrates one usage of CreateDBSnapshot.

Sample Request

https://rds.us-east-1.amazonaws.com/ ?Action=CreateDBSnapshot &DBInstanceIdentifier=mysqldb-02 &DBSnapshotIdentifier=mySQLdb-snap-1 &SignatureMethod=HmacSHA256 &SignatureVersion=4 &Version=2014-10-31 &X-Amz-Algorithm=AWS4-HMAC-SHA256 &X-Amz-Credential=AKIADQKE4SARGYLE/20140423/us-east-1/rds/aws4_request &X-Amz-Date=20140423T161105Z &X-Amz-SignedHeaders=content-type;host;user-agent;x-amz-content-sha256;x-amz-date &X-Amz-Signature=e9649af6edcfbab4016f04d72e1b7fc16d8734c37477afcf25b3def625484ed2

Sample Response

<CreateDBSnapshotResponse xmlns="http://rds.amazonaws.com/doc/2014-10-31/"> <CreateDBSnapshotResult> <DBSnapshot> <Port>3306</Port> <OptionGroupName>default:mysql-5-6</OptionGroupName> <Engine>mysql</Engine> <Status>creating</Status> <SnapshotType>manual</SnapshotType> <LicenseModel>general-public-license</LicenseModel> <EngineVersion>5.6.13</EngineVersion> <DBInstanceIdentifier>mysqldb-02</DBInstanceIdentifier> <DBSnapshotIdentifier>mysqldb-snap-1</DBSnapshotIdentifier> <AvailabilityZone>us-east-1a</AvailabilityZone> <InstanceCreateTime>2014-04-21T22:24:26.573Z</InstanceCreateTime> <PercentProgress>0</PercentProgress> <AllocatedStorage>100</AllocatedStorage> <MasterUsername>myawsuser</MasterUsername> </DBSnapshot> </CreateDBSnapshotResult> <ResponseMetadata> <RequestId>bd80a25a-af09-11c3-ed11-23c32f9aa7d3</RequestId> </ResponseMetadata> </CreateDBSnapshotResponse>

See Also

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