CreateAutoSnapshotPolicy - Elastic Compute Service - Alibaba Cloud Documentation Center

Creates an automatic snapshot policy in a specific region. Automatic snapshot policies allow Elastic Compute Service (ECS) to create snapshots for cloud disks on a regular basis to back up data. The policies can be applied to both system disks and data disks. If cross-region snapshot replication is enabled and no encryption parameters are configured, encrypted snapshots are copied to the destination region and snapshot copies are encrypted by using the service key of the destination region.

Operation description

Usage notes

When you call this operation to create an automatic snapshot policy, you can specify the days of the week on which to create automatic snapshots, the retention period of the automatic snapshots, and whether to enable cross-region replication for the snapshots in the policy to meet your diverse data backup requirements. After the automatic snapshot policy is created, call the ApplyAutoSnapshotPolicy operation to apply the policy to disks. If you want to modify the automatic snapshot policy, call the ModifyAutoSnapshotPolicyEx operation.

Take note of the following items:

You can create up to 100 automatic snapshot policies per region for a single Alibaba Cloud account.
If an automatic snapshot is being created when the time scheduled for creating another automatic snapshot is due, the new snapshot task is skipped. This may occur when a disk contains a large volume of data. For example, you have scheduled snapshots to be created at 09:00:00, 10:00:00, 11:00:00, and 12:00:00 for a disk. The system starts to create a snapshot for the disk at 09:00:00. The process takes 80 minutes to complete because the disk contains a large volume of data and ends at 10:20:00. In this case, the system does not create a snapshot at 10:00, but creates a snapshot at 11:00.
For information about how to copy a snapshot from one region to another region, see the "Background information" section in Copy a snapshot.

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Authorization information

The following table shows the authorization information corresponding to the API. The authorization information can be used in the Action policy element to grant a RAM user or RAM role the permissions to call this API operation. Description:

Operation: the value that you can use in the Action element to specify the operation on a resource.
Access level: the access level of each operation. The levels are read, write, and list.
Resource type: the type of the resource on which you can authorize the RAM user or the RAM role to perform the operation. Take note of the following items:
- The required resource types are displayed in bold characters.
- If the permissions cannot be granted at the resource level, All Resources is used in the Resource type column of the operation.
Condition Key: the condition key that is defined by the cloud service.
Associated operation: other operations that the RAM user or the RAM role must have permissions to perform to complete the operation. To complete the operation, the RAM user or the RAM role must have the permissions to perform the associated operations.

Operation	Access level	Resource type	Condition key	Associated operation
ecs:CreateAutoSnapshotPolicy	create	AutoSnapshotPolicy `acs:ecs:{#regionId}:{#accountId}:snapshotpolicy/`	none	none

Request parameters

Parameter	Type	Required	Description	Example
regionId	string	Yes	The ID of the region in which to create the automatic snapshot policy. You can call the DescribeRegions operation to query the most recent region list.	cn-hangzhou
autoSnapshotPolicyName	string	No	The name of the automatic snapshot policy. The name must be 2 to 128 characters in length. The name must start with a letter and cannot start with http:// or https://. The name can contain letters, digits, colons (:), underscores (_), and hyphens (-). By default, this parameter is left empty.	TestName
timePoints	string	Yes	The points in time of the day at which to create automatic snapshots. The time must be in UTC+8. Unit: hours. Valid values: 0 to 23, which correspond to the 24 on-the-hour points in time from 00:00:00 to 23:00:00. 1 indicates 01:00:00. Format description: Set this parameter to a JSON-formatted array. For example, a value of ["1"] specifies automatic snapshots to be created at 01:00:00. To schedule multiple automatic snapshots to be created in a day, you can specify multiple values. Separate the values with commas (,). You can specify a maximum of 24 points in time. For example, a value of ["1","3","5"] specifies automatic snapshots to be created at 01:00:00, 03:00:00, and 05:00:00.	["0", "1", … "23"]
repeatWeekdays	string	Yes	The days of the week on which to create automatic snapshots. Valid values: 1 to 7, which correspond to Monday to Sunday. 1 indicates Monday. Format description: Set this parameter to a JSON-formatted array. For example, a value of ["1"] specifies automatic snapshots to be created every Monday. To schedule multiple automatic snapshots to be created in a week, you can specify multiple values. Separate the values with commas (,). You can specify a maximum of seven days. For example, a value of ["1","3","5"] specifies automatic snapshots to be created every Monday, Wednesday, and Friday.	["1","2"]
retentionDays	integer	Yes	The retention period of the automatic snapshot. Unit: days. Valid values: -1: The automatic snapshot is retained until it is deleted. 1 to 65535: The automatic snapshot is retained for the specified number of days. After the retention period of the automatic snapshot expires, the automatic snapshot is automatically deleted. Default value: -1.	30
EnableCrossRegionCopy	boolean	No	Specifies whether to enable cross-region replication for snapshots. true false	false
TargetCopyRegions	string	No	The destination region to which to copy the snapshot. You can specify only a single destination region.	["cn-hangzhou"]
StorageLocationArn	string	No	Note This parameter is not publicly available.	null
CopiedSnapshotsRetentionDays	integer	No	The retention period of the snapshot copy in the destination region. Unit: days. Valid values: -1: The snapshot copy is retained until it is deleted. 1 to 65535: The snapshot copy is retained for the specified number of days. After the retention period of the snapshot copy expires, the snapshot copy is automatically deleted. Default value: -1.	30
Tag	array<object>	No	The tags to add to the automatic snapshot policy.
	object	No
Key	string	No	The key of tag N to add to the automatic snapshot policy. Valid values of N: 1 to 20. The tag key cannot be an empty string. The tag key can be up to 128 characters in length and cannot contain http:// or https://. The tag key cannot start with acs: or aliyun.	TestKey
Value	string	No	The value of tag N to add to the automatic snapshot policy. Valid values of N: 1 to 20. The tag value can be an empty string. The tag value can be up to 128 characters in length and cannot contain http:// or https://. The tag value cannot start with acs:.	TestValue
ResourceGroupId	string	No	The resource group ID.	rg-aek2kkmhmhs****
CopyEncryptionConfiguration	object	No	The encryption parameters for cross-region snapshot replication.
Encrypted	boolean	No	Specifies whether to enable cross-region snapshot replication and encryption. Valid values: true false Default value: false.	false
KMSKeyId	string	No	The ID of the KMS key used in cross-region snapshot replication and encryption.	0e478b7a-4262-4802-b8cb-00d3fb40826X
Arn	array<object>	No	This parameter is not publicly available.
	object	No
RoleType	string	No	This parameter is not publicly available.	hide
Rolearn	string	No	This parameter is not publicly available.	hide
AssumeRoleFor	long	No	This parameter is not publicly available.	1000000000

Response parameters

Parameter	Type	Description	Example
	object
AutoSnapshotPolicyId	string	The automatic snapshot policy ID.	sp-bp12m37ccmxvbmi5****
RequestId	string	The request ID.	473469C7-AA6F-4DC5-B3DB-A3DC0DE3C83E

Examples

Sample success responses

JSONformat

{
  "AutoSnapshotPolicyId": "sp-bp12m37ccmxvbmi5****",
  "RequestId": "473469C7-AA6F-4DC5-B3DB-A3DC0DE3C83E"
}

Error codes

HTTP status code	Error code	Error message	Description
400	DiskCategory.OperationNotSupported	The type of the specified disk does not support creating a snapshot.	The operation is not supported by the current disk category.
400	InvalidSnapshotPolicyName.Malformed	The specified autoSnapshotPolicyName is wrongly formed.	-
400	Duplicate.TagKey	The Tag.N.Key contain duplicate key.	The specified tag key already exists. Tag keys must be unique.
400	InvalidTagKey.Malformed	The specified Tag.n.Key is not valid.	The specified Tag.N.Key parameter is invalid.
400	InvalidTagValue.Malformed	The specified Tag.n.Value is not valid.	The specified tag value is invalid.
400	InvalidParameter.EncryptedIllegal	The specified parameter Encrypted must be true when kmsKeyId is not empty.	The encryption feature is not enabled after a Key Management Service (KMS) key ID is specified.
400	InvalidParameter.KMSKeyId.CMKNotEnabled	The CMK needs to be enabled.	The customer master key (CMK) is not enabled when KMSKeyId is specified for an encrypted disk. You can call the DescribeKey operation of KMS to query information about the specified CMK.
400	InvalidParameter.KmsNotEnabled	Failed to perform this operation because KMS is not activated.	You need to activate KMS key management service.
400	InvalidParameter.Encrypted.KmsNotEnable	Failed to perform this operation because KMS is not activated.	You need to activate KMS key escrow service.
400	InvalidParam.EncryptedMismatch	Creating encrypted disks with shared encrypted image requires replacing encryption keys.	You must change the encryption key to create a cloud disk after sharing an encrypted image.
403	ParameterInvalid	The specified RegionId parameter is invalid.	The specified region ID is invalid.
403	ParameterInvalid	The specified RepeatWeekDays parameter is invalid.	The specified RepeatWeekdays parameter is invalid.
403	ParameterInvalid	The specified TimePoints parameter is invalid.	The specified TimePoints parameter is invalid.
403	ParameterInvalid	The specified RetentionDays parameter is invalid.	The specified RetentionDays parameter is invalid.
403	AutoSnapshotPolicy.QuotaExceed	The maximum number of automatic snapshot policy has been reached.	The maximum number of automatic snapshot policy is exceeded.
403	InvalidAccountStatus.NotEnoughBalance	Your account does not have enough balance.	Your account balance is insufficient. Add funds to your account and try again.
403	InvalidAccountStatus.SnapshotServiceUnavailable	Snapshot service has not been opened yet.	The operation is not supported while the snapshot service is not activated.
403	InvalidParameter.TargetCopyRegions	The specified TargetCopyRegions is invalid.	-
403	InvalidParameter.CopiedSnapshotsRetentionDays	The specified CopiedSnapshotsRetentionDays is invalid.	-
403	InvalidParameter.KMSKeyId.CMKUnauthorized	The CMK needs to be added ECS tag.	-
403	InvalidParameter.KMSKeyId.KMSUnauthorized	ECS service have no right to access your KMS.	ECS is not authorized to access your KMS resources.
403	InvalidOperation.KMSKeyIdNotFound	The specified KMSKeyId not found, %s.	The associated KMS encryption key cannot be found. Verify that the KMS encryption key is valid.
403	Abs.InvalidAction.RegionNotSupport	This region does not support this action.	The operation is not supported in the region.

For a list of error codes, visit the Service error codes.

Change history

Change time	Summary of changes	Operation
2024-12-02	API Description Update. The API operation is not deprecated.. The Error code has changed	View Change Details
2024-03-21	The Error code has changed	View Change Details
2024-02-28	The Error code has changed. The request parameters of the API has changed	View Change Details