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Copies a manual snapshot of an instance or disk as another manual snapshot, or copies an automatic snapshot of an instance or disk as a manual snapshot

Source: R/lightsail_operations.R
lightsail_copy_snapshot.Rd

Copies a manual snapshot of an instance or disk as another manual snapshot, or copies an automatic snapshot of an instance or disk as a manual snapshot. This operation can also be used to copy a manual or automatic snapshot of an instance or a disk from one Amazon Web Services Region to another in Amazon Lightsail.

See https://www.paws-r-sdk.com/docs/lightsail_copy_snapshot/ for full documentation.

Usage

lightsail_copy_snapshot(
  sourceSnapshotName = NULL,
  sourceResourceName = NULL,
  restoreDate = NULL,
  useLatestRestorableAutoSnapshot = NULL,
  targetSnapshotName,
  sourceRegion
)

Arguments

sourceSnapshotName

The name of the source manual snapshot to copy.

Constraint:

  • Define this parameter only when copying a manual snapshot as another manual snapshot.

sourceResourceName

The name of the source instance or disk from which the source automatic snapshot was created.

Constraint:

restoreDate

The date of the source automatic snapshot to copy. Use the get auto snapshots operation to identify the dates of the available automatic snapshots.

Constraints:

  • Must be specified in YYYY-MM-DD format.

  • This parameter cannot be defined together with the use latest restorable auto snapshot parameter. The restore date and use latest restorable auto snapshot parameters are mutually exclusive.

  • Define this parameter only when copying an automatic snapshot as a manual snapshot. For more information, see the Amazon Lightsail Developer Guide.

useLatestRestorableAutoSnapshot

A Boolean value to indicate whether to use the latest available automatic snapshot of the specified source instance or disk.

Constraints:

  • This parameter cannot be defined together with the restore date parameter. The use latest restorable auto snapshot and restore date parameters are mutually exclusive.

  • Define this parameter only when copying an automatic snapshot as a manual snapshot. For more information, see the Amazon Lightsail Developer Guide.

targetSnapshotName

[required] The name of the new manual snapshot to be created as a copy.

sourceRegion

[required] The Amazon Web Services Region where the source manual or automatic snapshot is located.