Description

Parameters for the Amazon Create EBS Snapshot action.

Properties

consistencyMethod

Consistency method to use when creating the EBS snapshot.

Type: string

Valid Values:

• none

• stop-instance

Required: Yes

credentialIds

Registered credentials to use with the action. One and only one credential must be specified.

Type: Array of string

Required: Yes

deregisterFromLoadBalancers

Indicates whether to deregister from load balancers when stopping the EC2 instance. Required when consistencyMethod is stop-instance.

Type: string

Valid Values:

• none

• all-load-balancers

Required: Conditional

description

Description to assign to the EBS snapshots that are created.

Type: string

Required: No

regionNames

Regions to use with the action. One and only one region must be specified.

Type: Array of string

Required: Yes

snapshotName

Value to assign to the Name tag of the EBS snapshot that are created.

Type: string

Required: No

tags

Resource tags to add to the EBS snapshot.

Type: Array of Tag object.

Required: No

targetCredentialId

Credential ID of the AWS credentials to copy the the resulting EBS snapshot. Eg. cred-12345678. When setting this field, also set the targetRegionName field.

Type: string

Required: No

targetRegionName

Name of a secondary region to copy the resulting EBS snapshot. Must be a valid region. Eg. us-east-1

Type: string

Required: No

volumeIdentificationMethod

Method of identifying the EBS volumes.

Type: string

Valid Values:

• by-volume-id

Required: Yes

volumeId

Volume ID of the EBS volume to backup. Required when volumeIdentificationMethod is by-volume-id.

Type: Array of string

Required: Conditional

Sample JSON

{
    "credentialIds": [
        "cred-00000001"
    ],
    "regionNames": [
        "us-east-1"
    ],
    "volumeIdentificationMethod": "by-volume-id",
    "volumeId": "vol-11111111"
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    "consistencyMethod": "stop-instance",
    "deregisterFromLoadBalancers": "none",
​
    "snapshotName": "$(INSTANCEID)-$(DEVICE)-$(DATE)",
    "description": "Created by Skeddly for $(INSTANCEID) ($(INSTANCENAME))",
    "tags": [
        {
            "key": "skeddly:instance-id",
            "value": "$(INSTANCEID)"
        },
        {
            "key": "skeddly:volume-id",
            "value": "$(VOLUMEID)"
        },
        {
            "key": "skeddly:device",
            "value": "$(DEVICE)"
        }
    ]
}

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