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CopySnapshot
Description
Copies a point-in-time snapshot of an Amazon Elastic Block Store (Amazon EBS) volume and stores it in Amazon Simple Storage Service (Amazon S3). You can copy the snapshot within the same region or from one region to another. You can use the snapshot to create new Amazon EBS volumes or Amazon Machine Images (AMIs). For more information about Amazon EBS, see Amazon Elastic Block Store (Amazon EBS).
Request Parameters
SourceRegionThe ID of the AWS region that contains the snapshot to be copied.
Type: String
Default: None
Required: Yes
SourceSnapshotIdThe ID of the Amazon EBS snapshot to copy.
Type: String
Default: None
Required: Yes
DescriptionA description of the new Amazon EBS snapshot.
Type: String
Default: None
Constraints: Up to 255 characters
Required:No
Response Elements
The following elements are returned in a
CopySnapshotResponse element.
requestIdThe ID of the request.
Type: xsd:string
snapshotIdThe ID of the new snapshot.
Type: xsd:string
Examples
Example Request
This example copies Amazon EBS snapshot snap-1a2b3c4d located in the us-west-1
region.
https://ec2.amazonaws.com/?Action=CopySnapshot &AWSAccessKeyId=AKIAIOSFODNN7EXAMPLE &Description=My%20snapshot &Signature=VjpSFePIKxDc1IUy92W3SBApdLiap7nno4pEc9iEXAMPLE &SignatureMethod=HmacSHA256 &SignatureVersion=2 &SourceRegion=us-west-1 &SourceSnapshotId=snap-1a2b3c4d &Timestamp=2012-12-11T02%3A03%3A35.713Z &Version=2012-12-01
Example Response
<CopySnapshotResponse xmlns="http://ec2.amazonaws.com/doc/2013-02-01/"> <requestId>60bc441d-fa2c-494d-b155-5d6a3EXAMPLE</requestId> <snapshotId>snap-2a2b3c4d</snapshotId> </CopySnapshotResponse>
