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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.

The Atlas API authenticates using HTTP Digest Authentication. Provide a programmatic API public key and corresponding private key as the username and password when constructing the HTTP request.

To learn how to configure API access for an Atlas project, see Configure Atlas API Access.

All requests to this endpoint must originate from an IP address on the Atlas user’s API whitelist. For complete documentation on configuring API whitelists, see Enable API Whitelisting for Your Organization.

Base URL: https://cloud.mongodb.com/api/atlas/v1.0

Resource

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PATCH /groups/{GROUP-ID}/clusters/{CLUSTER-NAME}/backup/schedule

Request Parameters

Request Path Parameters

Parameter Type Description
GROUP-ID string Unique identifier of the project for the Atlas cluster.
CLUSTER-NAME string Name of the Atlas cluster that contains the snapshot you want to retrieve.

Request Query Parameters

This endpoint might use any of the HTTP request query parameters available to all Atlas API resources. All of these are optional.

Name Type Necessity Description Default
pretty boolean Optional Flag indicating whether the response body should be in a prettyprint format. false
envelope boolean Optional

Flag indicating if Atlas should wrap the response in a JSON envelope.

This option may be needed for some API clients. These clients cannot access the HTTP response headers or status code. To remediate this, set envelope=true in the query.

For endpoints that return one result, the response body includes:

status HTTP response code
envelope Expected response body
false

Request Body Parameters

Name Type Necessity Description
policies[]
 array Required Array containing a document for each backup policy item in the desired updated backup policy.
policies[i]
.id
 string Required Unique identifier of the backup policy that you want to update.
policies[i]
.policyItems[]
 array Required Array of backup policy items.
policies[i]
.policyItems[n]
.frequencyInterval
 number Required

Desired frequency of the new backup policy item specified by frequencyType. A value of 1 specifies the first instance of the corresponding frequencyType.

Example

  • In a monthly policy item, 1 indicates that the monthly snapshot occurs on the first day of the month.
  • In a weekly policy item, 1 indicates that the weekly snapshot occurs on Monday.

The following frequency values are valid:

  • Hourly: 1, 2,, 4, 6, 8, and 12.

    Note

    The only accepted value you can set for frequency interval with NVMe clusters is 12.

  • Daily: 1

  • Weekly: 1 through 7, where 1 is Monday and 7 is Sunday.

  • Monthly: 1 through 28 and 40, where 1 is the first day of the month and 40 is the last day of the month.
policies[i]
.policyItems[n]
.frequencyType
 string Required

Frequency associated with the backup policy item. One of the following values: hourly, daily, weekly or monthly.

Note

You cannot specify multiple hourly and daily backup policy items.
policies[i]
.policyItems[n]
.id
 string Required Unique identifier of the backup policy item.
policies[i]
.policyItems[n]
.retentionUnit
 string Required Scope of the backup policy item: days, weeks, or months.
policies[i]
.policyItems[n]
.retentionValue
 string Required

Value to associate with retentionUnit.

Note

Atlas requires that the value specified for retentionValue for less frequent policy items be equal to or larger than the value specified for more frequent policy items. For example, if the hourly policy item specifies a retention of two days, the retention for the weekly policy item must be two days or greater.
referenceHourOfDay
 number Optional UTC Hour of day between 0 and 23, inclusive, representing which hour of the day that Atlas takes snapshots for backup policy items.
referenceMinuteOfHour
 number Optional UTC Minutes after referenceHourOfDay that Atlas takes snapshots for backup policy items. Must be between 0 and 59, inclusive.
restoreWindowDays
 number Optional

Number of days back in time you can restore to with Continuous Cloud Backup accuracy. Must be a positive, non-zero integer.

Applies to continuous cloud backups only.
updateSnapshots
 boolean Optional Specify true to apply the retention changes in the updated backup policy to snapshots that Atlas took previously.

Response

Name Type Description
clusterId string Unique identifier of the Atlas cluster.
clusterName string Name of the Atlas cluster.
links array One or more links to sub-resources and/or related resources. The relations between URLs are explained in the Web Linking Specification
nextSnapshot string Timestamp in the number of seconds that have elapsed since the UNIX epoch when Atlas takes the next snapshot.
policies[] array Unique identifier for the snapshot and an array of backup policy items.
policies[i]
.id
 string Unique identifier of the backup policy.
policies[i]
.policyItems[]
 array Array of backup policy items.
policies[i]
.policyItems[n]
.frequencyInterval
 number Desired frequency of the new backup policy item specified by frequencyType.
policies[i]
.policyItems[n]
.frequencyType
 string Frequency associated with the backup policy item. One of the following values: hourly, daily, weekly or monthly.
policies[i]
.policyItems[n]
.id
 string Unique identifier of the backup policy item.
policies[i]
.policyItems[n]
.retentionUnit
 string Metric of duration of the backup policy item: days, weeks, or months.
policies[i]
.policyItems[n]
.retentionValue
 number Duration for which the backup is kept. Associated with retentionUnit.
referenceHourOfDay number UTC Hour of day between 0 and 23 representing which hour of the day that Atlas takes a snapshot.
referenceMinuteOfHour number UTC Minute of day between 0 and 59 representing which minute of the referenceHourOfDay that Atlas takes the snapshot.
restoreWindowDays number

Number of days back in time you can restore to with Continuous Cloud Backup accuracy. Must be a positive, non-zero integer.

Applies to continuous cloud backups only.
updateSnapshots boolean Flag indicating if updates to retention in the backup policy were applied to snapshots that Atlas took earlier. If set to true, the retention changes were applied to earlier snapshots.

Example Request

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curl --user "{PUBLIC-KEY}:{PRIVATE-KEY}" --digest --include \
  --header "Accept: application/json" \
  --header "Content-Type: application/json" \
  --request PATCH "https://cloud.mongodb.com/api/atlas/v1.0/groups/5b6212af90dc76637950a2c6/clusters/MyCluster/backup/schedule" \
  --data '
    {
      "referenceHourOfDay": 12,
      "referenceMinuteOfHour": 30,
      "policies": [
      {
         "id": "5c95242c87d9d636e70c28ef",
         "policyItems": [
           {
             "id": "5c95242c87d9d636e70c28f0",
             "frequencyType": "hourly",
             "frequencyInterval": 6,
             "retentionValue": 2,
             "retentionUnit": "days"
           },
           {
             "id": "5c95242c87d9d636e70c28f2",
             "frequencyType": "weekly",
             "frequencyInterval": 1,
             "retentionValue": 3,
             "retentionUnit": "weeks"
           }
         ]
       }
     ],
     "updateSnapshots": true
    }'

Example Response

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{
  "clusterId" : "5c94f6ea80eef5617167224d",
  "clusterName" : "Cluster0",
  "links" : [ {
    "href" : "https://cloud.mongodb.com/api/atlas/v1.0/groups/5b6212af90dc76637950a2c6/clusters/Cluster0/backup/schedule",
    "rel" : "self"
  }, {
    "href" : "https://cloud.mongodb.com/api/atlas/v1.0/groups/5b6212af90dc76637950a2c6",
    "rel" : "http://mms.mongodb.com/group"
  } ],
  "nextSnapshot" : "2019-04-03T18:30:08Z",
  "policies" : [ {
    "id" : "5c95242c87d9d636e70c28ef",
    "policyItems" : [ {
      "frequencyInterval" : 6,
      "frequencyType" : "hourly",
      "id" : "5c95242c87d9d636e70c28f0",
      "retentionUnit" : "days",
      "retentionValue" : 2
    }, {
      "frequencyInterval" : 1,
      "frequencyType" : "weekly",
      "id" : "5c95242c87d9d636e70c28f2",
      "retentionUnit" : "weeks",
      "retentionValue" : 3
    } ]
  } ],
  "referenceHourOfDay" : 12,
  "referenceMinuteOfHour" : 30
}

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