Create a snapshot of an Amazon RDS DB instance using an Amazon SDK
The following code examples show how to create a snapshot of an Amazon RDS DB instance.
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- Amazon SDK for .NET
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There's more on GitHub. Find the complete example and learn how to set up and run in the Amazon Code Examples Repository
. /// <summary> /// Create a snapshot of a DB instance. /// </summary> /// <param name="dbInstanceIdentifier">DB instance identifier.</param> /// <param name="snapshotIdentifier">Identifier for the snapshot.</param> /// <returns>DB snapshot object.</returns> public async Task<DBSnapshot> CreateDBSnapshot(string dbInstanceIdentifier, string snapshotIdentifier) { var response = await _amazonRDS.CreateDBSnapshotAsync( new CreateDBSnapshotRequest() { DBSnapshotIdentifier = snapshotIdentifier, DBInstanceIdentifier = dbInstanceIdentifier }); return response.DBSnapshot; }
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For API details, see CreateDBSnapshot in Amazon SDK for .NET API Reference.
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- C++
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- SDK for C++
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There's more on GitHub. Find the complete example and learn how to set up and run in the Amazon Code Examples Repository
. Aws::Client::ClientConfiguration clientConfig; // Optional: Set to the AWS Region (overrides config file). // clientConfig.region = "us-east-1"; Aws::RDS::RDSClient client(clientConfig); Aws::RDS::Model::CreateDBSnapshotRequest request; request.SetDBInstanceIdentifier(DB_INSTANCE_IDENTIFIER); request.SetDBSnapshotIdentifier(snapshotID); Aws::RDS::Model::CreateDBSnapshotOutcome outcome = client.CreateDBSnapshot(request); if (outcome.IsSuccess()) { std::cout << "Snapshot creation has started." << std::endl; } else { std::cerr << "Error with RDS::CreateDBSnapshot. " << outcome.GetError().GetMessage() << std::endl; cleanUpResources(PARAMETER_GROUP_NAME, DB_INSTANCE_IDENTIFIER, client); return false; }
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For API details, see CreateDBSnapshot in Amazon SDK for C++ API Reference.
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- Go
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- SDK for Go V2
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There's more on GitHub. Find the complete example and learn how to set up and run in the Amazon Code Examples Repository
. type DbInstances struct { RdsClient *rds.Client } // CreateSnapshot creates a snapshot of a DB instance. func (instances *DbInstances) CreateSnapshot(instanceName string, snapshotName string) ( *types.DBSnapshot, error) { output, err := instances.RdsClient.CreateDBSnapshot(context.TODO(), &rds.CreateDBSnapshotInput{ DBInstanceIdentifier: aws.String(instanceName), DBSnapshotIdentifier: aws.String(snapshotName), }) if err != nil { log.Printf("Couldn't create snapshot %v: %v\n", snapshotName, err) return nil, err } else { return output.DBSnapshot, nil } }
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For API details, see CreateDBSnapshot
in Amazon SDK for Go API Reference.
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- Java
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- SDK for Java 2.x
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There's more on GitHub. Find the complete example and learn how to set up and run in the Amazon Code Examples Repository
. // Create an Amazon RDS snapshot. public static void createSnapshot(RdsClient rdsClient, String dbInstanceIdentifier, String dbSnapshotIdentifier) { try { CreateDbSnapshotRequest snapshotRequest = CreateDbSnapshotRequest.builder() .dbInstanceIdentifier(dbInstanceIdentifier) .dbSnapshotIdentifier(dbSnapshotIdentifier) .build(); CreateDbSnapshotResponse response = rdsClient.createDBSnapshot(snapshotRequest); System.out.println("The Snapshot id is " + response.dbSnapshot().dbiResourceId()); } catch (RdsException e) { System.out.println(e.getLocalizedMessage()); System.exit(1); } }
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For API details, see CreateDBSnapshot in Amazon SDK for Java 2.x API Reference.
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- Python
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- SDK for Python (Boto3)
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There's more on GitHub. Find the complete example and learn how to set up and run in the Amazon Code Examples Repository
. class InstanceWrapper: """Encapsulates Amazon RDS DB instance actions.""" def __init__(self, rds_client): """ :param rds_client: A Boto3 Amazon RDS client. """ self.rds_client = rds_client @classmethod def from_client(cls): """ Instantiates this class from a Boto3 client. """ rds_client = boto3.client('rds') return cls(rds_client) def create_snapshot(self, snapshot_id, instance_id): """ Creates a snapshot of a DB instance. :param snapshot_id: The ID to give the created snapshot. :param instance_id: The ID of the DB instance to snapshot. :return: Data about the newly created snapshot. """ try: response = self.rds_client.create_db_snapshot( DBSnapshotIdentifier=snapshot_id, DBInstanceIdentifier=instance_id) snapshot = response['DBSnapshot'] except ClientError as err: logger.error( "Couldn't create snapshot of %s. Here's why: %s: %s", instance_id, err.response['Error']['Code'], err.response['Error']['Message']) raise else: return snapshot
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For API details, see CreateDBSnapshot in Amazon SDK for Python (Boto3) API Reference.
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- Ruby
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- SDK for Ruby
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There's more on GitHub. Find the complete example and learn how to set up and run in the Amazon Code Examples Repository
. require "aws-sdk-rds" # v2: require 'aws-sdk' # Create a snapshot for an Amazon Relational Database Service (Amazon RDS) # DB instance. # # @param rds_resource [Aws::RDS::Resource] The resource containing SDK logic. # @param db_instance_name [String] The name of the Amazon RDS DB instance. # @return [Aws::RDS::DBSnapshot, nil] The snapshot created, or nil if error. def create_snapshot(rds_resource, db_instance_name) id = "snapshot-#{rand(10**6)}" db_instance = rds_resource.db_instance(db_instance_name) db_instance.create_snapshot({ db_snapshot_identifier: id }) rescue Aws::Errors::ServiceError => e puts "Couldn't create DB instance snapshot #{id}:\n #{e.message}" end
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For API details, see CreateDBSnapshot in Amazon SDK for Ruby API Reference.
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