Request Syntax Request Parameters Response Elements Errors See Also

UpdateTask

Updates the metadata associated with a task.

Request Syntax


{
   "CloudWatchLogGroupArn": "string",
   "Excludes": [ 
      { 
         "FilterType": "string",
         "Value": "string"
      }
   ],
   "Name": "string",
   "Options": { 
      "Atime": "string",
      "BytesPerSecond": number,
      "Gid": "string",
      "LogLevel": "string",
      "Mtime": "string",
      "OverwriteMode": "string",
      "PosixPermissions": "string",
      "PreserveDeletedFiles": "string",
      "PreserveDevices": "string",
      "TaskQueueing": "string",
      "Uid": "string",
      "VerifyMode": "string"
   },
   "Schedule": { 
      "ScheduleExpression": "string"
   },
   "TaskArn": "string"
}

Request Parameters

For information about the parameters that are common to all actions, see Common Parameters.

The request accepts the following data in JSON format.

CloudWatchLogGroupArn

The Amazon Resource Name (ARN) of the resource name of the CloudWatch LogGroup.

Type: String

Length Constraints: Maximum length of 562.

Pattern: ^arn:(aws|aws-cn|aws-us-gov|aws-iso|aws-iso-b):logs:[a-z\-0-9]*:[0-9]{12}:log-group:([^:\*]*)$

Required: No

Excludes

A list of filter rules that determines which files to exclude from a task. The list should contain a single filter string that consists of the patterns to exclude. The patterns are delimited by "|" (that is, a pipe), for example: "/folder1|/folder2"

Type: Array of FilterRule objects

Array Members: Minimum number of 0 items. Maximum number of 1 item.

Required: No

Name

The name of the task to update.

Type: String

Length Constraints: Minimum length of 1. Maximum length of 256.

Pattern: ^[a-zA-Z0-9\s+=._:@/-]+$

Required: No

Options

Represents the options that are available to control the behavior of a StartTaskExecution operation. Behavior includes preserving metadata such as user ID (UID), group ID (GID), and file permissions, and also overwriting files in the destination, data integrity verification, and so on.

A task has a set of default options associated with it. If you don't specify an option in StartTaskExecution, the default value is used. You can override the defaults options on each task execution by specifying an overriding Options value to StartTaskExecution.

Type: Options object

Required: No

Schedule

Specifies a schedule used to periodically transfer files from a source to a destination location. You can configure your task to execute hourly, daily, weekly or on specific days of the week. You control when in the day or hour you want the task to execute. The time you specify is UTC time. For more information, see Scheduling Your Task.

Type: TaskSchedule object

Required: No

TaskArn

The Amazon Resource Name (ARN) of the resource name of the task to update.

Type: String

Length Constraints: Maximum length of 128.

Pattern: ^arn:(aws|aws-cn|aws-us-gov|aws-iso|aws-iso-b):datasync:[a-z\-0-9]*:[0-9]{12}:task/task-[0-9a-f]{17}$

Required: Yes

Response Elements

If the action is successful, the service sends back an HTTP 200 response with an empty HTTP body.

Errors

For information about the errors that are common to all actions, see Common Errors.

InternalException

This exception is thrown when an error occurs in the AWS DataSync service.

HTTP Status Code: 500

InvalidRequestException

This exception is thrown when the client submits a malformed request.

HTTP Status Code: 400