Take One On-Demand Snapshot
Takes one on-demand snapshot for the specified cluster. Atlas takes on-demand snapshots immediately and scheduled snapshots at regular intervals. If an on-demand snapshot with a status of queued or inProgress exists, before taking another snapshot, wait until Atlas completes completes processing the previously taken on-demand snapshot.
To use this resource, the requesting Service Account or API Key must have the Project Backup Manager role.
Path parameters
-
Unique 24-hexadecimal digit string that identifies your project. Use the /groups endpoint to retrieve all projects to which the authenticated user has access.
NOTE: Groups and projects are synonymous terms. Your group id is the same as your project id. For existing groups, your group/project id remains the same. The resource and corresponding endpoints use the term groups.
Format should match the following pattern:
^([a-f0-9]{24})$. -
Human-readable label that identifies the cluster.
Format should match the following pattern:
^[a-zA-Z0-9][a-zA-Z0-9-]*$.
Query parameters
-
Flag that indicates whether Application wraps the response in an
envelopeJSON object. Some API clients cannot access the HTTP response headers or status code. To remediate this, set envelope=true in the query. Endpoints that return a list of results use the results object as an envelope. Application adds the status parameter to the response body.Default value is
false. -
Flag that indicates whether the response body should be in the prettyprint format.
Default value is
false.Prettyprint
curl \
--request POST 'https://cloud.mongodb.com/api/atlas/v2/groups/32b6e34b3d91647abb20e7b8/clusters/{clusterName}/backup/snapshots' \
--header "Authorization: Bearer $ACCESS_TOKEN" \
--header "Content-Type: application/vnd.atlas.2023-01-01+json"{
"description": "string",
"retentionInDays": 42
}{
"createdAt": "2025-05-04T09:42:00Z",
"description": "string",
"expiresAt": "2025-05-04T09:42:00Z",
"frequencyType": "hourly",
"id": "32b6e34b3d91647abb20e7b8",
"links": [
{
"href": "https://cloud.mongodb.com/api/atlas",
"rel": "self"
}
],
"masterKeyUUID": "string",
"mongodVersion": "string",
"policyItems": [
"32b6e34b3d91647abb20e7b8"
],
"snapshotType": "onDemand",
"status": "queued",
"storageSizeBytes": 42,
"type": "replicaSet",
"cloudProvider": "AWS",
"copyRegions": [
"string"
],
"replicaSetName": "string"
}{
"createdAt": "2025-05-04T09:42:00Z",
"description": "string",
"expiresAt": "2025-05-04T09:42:00Z",
"frequencyType": "hourly",
"id": "32b6e34b3d91647abb20e7b8",
"links": [
{
"href": "https://cloud.mongodb.com/api/atlas",
"rel": "self"
}
],
"masterKeyUUID": "string",
"mongodVersion": "string",
"policyItems": [
"32b6e34b3d91647abb20e7b8"
],
"snapshotType": "onDemand",
"status": "queued",
"storageSizeBytes": 42,
"type": "shardedCluster",
"configServerType": "EMBEDDED",
"members": [
{
"cloudProvider": "AWS",
"id": "32b6e34b3d91647abb20e7b8",
"replicaSetName": "string"
}
],
"snapshotIds": [
"32b6e34b3d91647abb20e7b8"
]
}{
"error": 400,
"detail": "(This is just an example, the exception may not be related to this endpoint) No provider AWS exists.",
"reason": "Bad Request",
"errorCode": "VALIDATION_ERROR"
}{
"error": 401,
"detail": "(This is just an example, the exception may not be related to this endpoint)",
"reason": "Unauthorized",
"errorCode": "NOT_ORG_GROUP_CREATOR"
}{
"error": 403,
"detail": "(This is just an example, the exception may not be related to this endpoint)",
"reason": "Forbidden",
"errorCode": "CANNOT_CHANGE_GROUP_NAME"
}{
"error": 404,
"detail": "(This is just an example, the exception may not be related to this endpoint) Cannot find resource AWS",
"reason": "Not Found",
"errorCode": "RESOURCE_NOT_FOUND"
}{
"error": 500,
"detail": "(This is just an example, the exception may not be related to this endpoint)",
"reason": "Internal Server Error",
"errorCode": "UNEXPECTED_ERROR"
}