lightsail_create_instance_snapshot: Creates a snapshot of a specific virtual private server, or instance

Description

Creates a snapshot of a specific virtual private server, or instance. You can use a snapshot to create a new instance that is based on that snapshot.

The create instance snapshot operation supports tag-based access control via request tags. For more information, see the Lightsail Dev Guide.

Usage

lightsail_create_instance_snapshot(instanceSnapshotName, instanceName,
  tags)

Value

A list with the following syntax:

list(
  operations = list(
    list(
      id = "string",
      resourceName = "string",
      resourceType = "ContainerService"|"Instance"|"StaticIp"|"KeyPair"|"InstanceSnapshot"|"Domain"|"PeeredVpc"|"LoadBalancer"|"LoadBalancerTlsCertificate"|"Disk"|"DiskSnapshot"|"RelationalDatabase"|"RelationalDatabaseSnapshot"|"ExportSnapshotRecord"|"CloudFormationStackRecord"|"Alarm"|"ContactMethod"|"Distribution"|"Certificate",
      createdAt = as.POSIXct(
        "2015-01-01"
      ),
      location = list(
        availabilityZone = "string",
        regionName = "us-east-1"|"us-east-2"|"us-west-1"|"us-west-2"|"eu-west-1"|"eu-west-2"|"eu-west-3"|"eu-central-1"|"ca-central-1"|"ap-south-1"|"ap-southeast-1"|"ap-southeast-2"|"ap-northeast-1"|"ap-northeast-2"
      ),
      isTerminal = TRUE|FALSE,
      operationDetails = "string",
      operationType = "DeleteKnownHostKeys"|"DeleteInstance"|"CreateInstance"|"StopInstance"|"StartInstance"|"RebootInstance"|"OpenInstancePublicPorts"|"PutInstancePublicPorts"|"CloseInstancePublicPorts"|"AllocateStaticIp"|"ReleaseStaticIp"|"AttachStaticIp"|"DetachStaticIp"|"UpdateDomainEntry"|"DeleteDomainEntry"|"CreateDomain"|"DeleteDomain"|"CreateInstanceSnapshot"|"DeleteInstanceSnapshot"|"CreateInstancesFromSnapshot"|"CreateLoadBalancer"|"DeleteLoadBalancer"|"AttachInstancesToLoadBalancer"|"DetachInstancesFromLoadBalancer"|"UpdateLoadBalancerAttribute"|"CreateLoadBalancerTlsCertificate"|"DeleteLoadBalancerTlsCertificate"|"AttachLoadBalancerTlsCertificate"|"CreateDisk"|"DeleteDisk"|"AttachDisk"|"DetachDisk"|"CreateDiskSnapshot"|"DeleteDiskSnapshot"|"CreateDiskFromSnapshot"|"CreateRelationalDatabase"|"UpdateRelationalDatabase"|"DeleteRelationalDatabase"|"CreateRelationalDatabaseFromSnapshot"|"CreateRelationalDatabaseSnapshot"|"DeleteRelationalDatabaseSnapshot"|"UpdateRelationalDatabaseParameters"|"StartRelationalDatabase"|"RebootRelationalDatabase"|"StopRelationalDatabase"|"EnableAddOn"|"DisableAddOn"|"PutAlarm"|"GetAlarms"|"DeleteAlarm"|"TestAlarm"|"CreateContactMethod"|"GetContactMethods"|"SendContactMethodVerification"|"DeleteContactMethod"|"CreateDistribution"|"UpdateDistribution"|"DeleteDistribution"|"ResetDistributionCache"|"AttachCertificateToDistribution"|"DetachCertificateFromDistribution"|"UpdateDistributionBundle"|"CreateCertificate"|"DeleteCertificate"|"CreateContainerService"|"UpdateContainerService"|"DeleteContainerService"|"CreateContainerServiceDeployment"|"CreateContainerServiceRegistryLogin"|"RegisterContainerImage"|"DeleteContainerImage",
      status = "NotStarted"|"Started"|"Failed"|"Completed"|"Succeeded",
      statusChangedAt = as.POSIXct(
        "2015-01-01"
      ),
      errorCode = "string",
      errorDetails = "string"
    )
  )
)

Arguments

instanceSnapshotName

[required] The name for your new snapshot.

instanceName

[required] The Lightsail instance on which to base your snapshot.

tags

The tag keys and optional values to add to the resource during create.

Use the tag_resource action to tag a resource after it's created.

Request syntax

svc$create_instance_snapshot(
  instanceSnapshotName = "string",
  instanceName = "string",
  tags = list(
    list(
      key = "string",
      value = "string"
    )
  )
)