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DescribeExportTasks - Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud

DescribeExportTasks

Describes the specified export instance tasks or all of your export instance tasks.

Request Parameters

The following parameters are for this specific action. For more information about required and optional parameters that are common to all actions, see Common Query Parameters.

ExportTaskId.N

The export task IDs.

Type: Array of strings

Required: No

Filter.N

the filters for the export tasks.

Type: Array of Filter objects

Required: No

Response Elements

The following elements are returned by the service.

exportTaskSet

Information about the export tasks.

Type: Array of ExportTask objects

requestId

The ID of the request.

Type: String

Errors

For information about the errors that are common to all actions, see Common client error codes.

Examples

Example

This example describes a single export task.

Sample Request

https://ec2.amazonaws.com/?Action=DescribeExportTasks &exportTaskId.1=export-i-1234wxyz &AUTHPARAMS

Sample Response

<DescribeExportTasksResponse xmlns="http://ec2.amazonaws.com/doc/2016-11-15/"> <requestId>59dbff89-35bd-4eac-99ed-be587EXAMPLE</requestId> <exportTaskSet> <item> <exportTaskId>export-i-1234wxyz</exportTaskId> <description>Example for docs</description> <state>active</state> <statusMessage>Running</statusMessage> <instanceExport> <instanceId>i-12345678</instanceId> <targetEnvironment>VMWare</targetEnvironment> </instanceExport> <exportToS3> <diskImageFormat>VMDK</diskImageFormat> <containerFormat>OVA</containerFormat> <s3Bucket>amzn-s3-demo-for-exported-vm</s3Bucket> <s3Key>my-exports/ export-i-1234wxyz.ova</s3Key> </exportToS3> </item> </exportTaskSet> </DescribeExportTasksResponse>

See Also

For more information about using this API in one of the language-specific AWS SDKs, see the following:

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