Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud
API Reference (API Version 2013-02-01)
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DescribeExportTasks

Description

Describes one or more of your export tasks.

Request Parameters

ExportTaskId.n

One or more export task IDs. If no task IDs are provided, all active export tasks are described.

Type: String

Default: None

Required: No

Response Elements

The following elements are returned in a DescribeExportTasks element.

requestId

The ID of the request.

Type: xsd:string

exportTaskSet

A list of export tasks, each one wrapped in an item element.

Type: ExportTaskResponseType

Examples

Example Request

This example describes a single export task.

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

Example Response

<DescribeExportTasksResponse xmlns="http://ec2.amazonaws.com/doc/2013-02-01/">
<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>my-bucket-for-exported-vm</s3Bucket>
<s3Key>my-exports/ export-i-1234wxyz .ova</s3Key>
</exportToS3>
</item>
</exportTaskSet>
</ DescribeExportTasksResponse>