BackupRule
Specifies a scheduled task used to back up a selection of resources.
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- RuleName
-
A display name for a backup rule. Must contain 1 to 50 alphanumeric or '-_.' characters.
Type: String
Pattern:
^[a-zA-Z0-9\-\_\.]{1,50}$
Required: Yes
- TargetBackupVaultName
-
The name of a logical container where backups are stored. Backup vaults are identified by names that are unique to the account used to create them and the Amazon Region where they are created.
Type: String
Pattern:
^[a-zA-Z0-9\-\_]{2,50}$
Required: Yes
- CompletionWindowMinutes
-
A value in minutes after a backup job is successfully started before it must be completed or it will be canceled by Amazon Backup. This value is optional.
Type: Long
Required: No
- CopyActions
-
An array of
CopyAction
objects, which contains the details of the copy operation.Type: Array of CopyAction objects
Required: No
- EnableContinuousBackup
-
Specifies whether Amazon Backup creates continuous backups. True causes Amazon Backup to create continuous backups capable of point-in-time restore (PITR). False (or not specified) causes Amazon Backup to create snapshot backups.
Type: Boolean
Required: No
- Lifecycle
-
The lifecycle defines when a protected resource is transitioned to cold storage and when it expires. Amazon Backup transitions and expires backups automatically according to the lifecycle that you define.
Backups transitioned to cold storage must be stored in cold storage for a minimum of 90 days. Therefore, the “retention” setting must be 90 days greater than the “transition to cold after days” setting. The “transition to cold after days” setting cannot be changed after a backup has been transitioned to cold.
Resource types that can transition to cold storage are listed in the Feature availability by resource table. Amazon Backup ignores this expression for other resource types.
Type: Lifecycle object
Required: No
- RecoveryPointTags
-
The tags that are assigned to resources that are associated with this rule when restored from backup.
Type: String to string map
Required: No
- RuleId
-
Uniquely identifies a rule that is used to schedule the backup of a selection of resources.
Type: String
Required: No
- ScheduleExpression
-
A cron expression in UTC specifying when Amazon Backup initiates a backup job. For more information about Amazon cron expressions, see Schedule Expressions for Rules
in the Amazon CloudWatch Events User Guide.. Two examples of Amazon cron expressions are 15 * ? * * *
(take a backup every hour at 15 minutes past the hour) and0 12 * * ? *
(take a backup every day at 12 noon UTC). For a table of examples, click the preceding link and scroll down the page.Type: String
Required: No
- ScheduleExpressionTimezone
-
The timezone in which the schedule expression is set. By default, ScheduleExpressions are in UTC. You can modify this to a specified timezone.
Type: String
Required: No
- StartWindowMinutes
-
A value in minutes after a backup is scheduled before a job will be canceled if it doesn't start successfully. This value is optional. If this value is included, it must be at least 60 minutes to avoid errors.
During the start window, the backup job status remains in
CREATED
status until it has successfully begun or until the start window time has run out. If within the start window time Amazon Backup receives an error that allows the job to be retried, Amazon Backup will automatically retry to begin the job at least every 10 minutes until the backup successfully begins (the job status changes toRUNNING
) or until the job status changes toEXPIRED
(which is expected to occur when the start window time is over).Type: Long
Required: No
See Also
For more information about using this API in one of the language-specific Amazon SDKs, see the following: