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
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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
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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/v1.0/groups/32b6e34b3d91647abb20e7b8/clusters/{clusterName}/backup/snapshots' \ --header "Authorization: Bearer $ACCESS_TOKEN" \ --header "Content-Type: application/json" \ --data '{"description":"string","retentionInDays":42}'{ "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" }