Creates a snapshot of the specified simulation. A snapshot is a file that contains simulation state data at a specific time. The state data saved in a snapshot includes entity data from the State Fabric, the simulation configuration specified in the schema, and the clock tick number. You can use the snapshot to initialize a new simulation. For more information about snapshots, see
Snapshots in the
SimSpace Weaver User Guide.
You specify a
Destination when you create a snapshot. The
Destination is the name of an Amazon S3 bucket and an optional
ObjectKeyPrefix. The
ObjectKeyPrefix is usually the name of a folder in the bucket. SimSpace Weaver creates a
snapshot folder inside the
Destination and places the snapshot file there.
The snapshot file is an Amazon S3 object. It has an object key with the form:
object-key-prefix/snapshot/simulation-name-YYMMdd-HHmm-ss.zip, where:
- YY is the 2-digit year
- MM is the 2-digit month
- dd is the 2-digit day of the month
- HH is the 2-digit hour (24-hour clock)
- mm is the 2-digit minutes
- ss is the 2-digit seconds