get-auto-snapshots¶

Description¶

Returns the available automatic snapshots for an instance or disk. For more information, see the Amazon Lightsail Developer Guide .

Synopsis¶

  get-auto-snapshots
--resource-name <value>
[--cli-input-json | --cli-input-yaml]
[--generate-cli-skeleton <value>]

Options¶

--resource-name (string)

The name of the source instance or disk from which to get automatic snapshot information.

--cli-input-json | --cli-input-yaml (string) Reads arguments from the JSON string provided. The JSON string follows the format provided by --generate-cli-skeleton. If other arguments are provided on the command line, those values will override the JSON-provided values. It is not possible to pass arbitrary binary values using a JSON-provided value as the string will be taken literally. This may not be specified along with --cli-input-yaml.

--generate-cli-skeleton (string) Prints a JSON skeleton to standard output without sending an API request. If provided with no value or the value input, prints a sample input JSON that can be used as an argument for --cli-input-json. Similarly, if provided yaml-input it will print a sample input YAML that can be used with --cli-input-yaml. If provided with the value output, it validates the command inputs and returns a sample output JSON for that command. The generated JSON skeleton is not stable between versions of the AWS CLI and there are no backwards compatibility guarantees in the JSON skeleton generated.

See ‘aws help’ for descriptions of global parameters.

Examples¶

Note

To use the following examples, you must have the AWS CLI installed and configured. See the Getting started guide in the AWS CLI User Guide for more information.

Unless otherwise stated, all examples have unix-like quotation rules. These examples will need to be adapted to your terminal’s quoting rules. See Using quotation marks with strings in the AWS CLI User Guide .

To get the available automatic snapshots for an instance

The following get-auto-snapshots example returns the available automatic snapshots for instance WordPress-1.

aws lightsail get-auto-snapshots \
    --resource-name WordPress-1

Output:

{
    "resourceName": "WordPress-1",
    "resourceType": "Instance",
    "autoSnapshots": [
        {
            "date": "2019-10-14",
            "createdAt": 1571033872.0,
            "status": "Success",
            "fromAttachedDisks": []
        },
        {
            "date": "2019-10-13",
            "createdAt": 1570947473.0,
            "status": "Success",
            "fromAttachedDisks": []
        },
        {
            "date": "2019-10-12",
            "createdAt": 1570861072.0,
            "status": "Success",
            "fromAttachedDisks": []
        },
        {
            "date": "2019-10-11",
            "createdAt": 1570774672.0,
            "status": "Success",
            "fromAttachedDisks": []
        }
    ]
}

For more information, see Keeping automatic snapshots of instances or disks in Amazon Lightsail in the Lightsail Dev Guide.

Output¶

resourceName -> (string)

The name of the source instance or disk for the automatic snapshots.

resourceType -> (string)

The resource type (e.g., Instance or Disk ).

autoSnapshots -> (list)

An array of objects that describe the automatic snapshots that are available for the specified source instance or disk.

(structure)

Describes an automatic snapshot.

date -> (string)

The date of the automatic snapshot in YYYY-MM-DD format.

createdAt -> (timestamp)

The timestamp when the automatic snapshot was created.

status -> (string)

The status of the automatic snapshot.

fromAttachedDisks -> (list)

An array of objects that describe the block storage disks attached to the instance when the automatic snapshot was created.

(structure)

Describes a block storage disk that is attached to an instance, and is included in an automatic snapshot.

path -> (string)

The path of the disk (e.g., /dev/xvdf ).

sizeInGb -> (integer)

The size of the disk in GB.

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