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Create or modify an automatic snapshot policy

Snapshots can retain the state of disk data at a point in time for data backup or custom mirroring.

Description

Starting from March 28, 2017, the snapshot service will be charged. For more information about snapshot charges, see Snapshot Commercial FAQ.

Try to avoid business peaks when setting automatic snapshot creation times and repeating dates, as creating snapshots may slightly degrade disk performance and slow down briefly.

An account can create up to 100 automatic snapshot policies in a region.

prerequisite

If you want to modify an automatic snapshot policy, you must first create an automatic snapshot policy.

Operation steps

Follow these steps to create or modify an automatic snapshot policy:

Log in to the ECS Management console.

In the left navigation bar, select Snapshot and Mirror > automatic Snapshot Policy.

On the automatic Snapshot Policy page:

If you want to create a policy: click create Policy in the upper right corner.

If you want to modify the policy: find the policy that needs to be modified, and in the Action column, click modify Policy.

"in the create Policy or modify Policy dialog box, define an automatic snapshot policy:"

Follow the interface prompts to specify a valid policy name.

Select creation time: select a fixed time every day to create an automatic snapshot. A total of 24 hours can be selected every day, and more choices can be made.

Select a repeat date for each week: select the day on which the snapshot is created each week. You can choose from Monday to Sunday, and you can choose more than one.

Select the retention time for automatic snapshots: the default retention time is 30 days. You can set the retention time by yourself. 1: 65536 is optional. You can also choose to keep automatic snapshots on a continuous basis.

Description

When the number of snapshots reaches the snapshot limit, the system automatically deletes the earliest automatic snapshots, and manual snapshots are not affected.

Click OK.

Subsequent operation

You can set an automatic snapshot policy for the disk.

Related API

CreateAutoSnapshotPolicy: create an automatic snapshot policy

DescribeAutoSnapshotPolicyEx: query automatic snapshot policy

ModifyAutoSnapshotPolicyEx: modify automatic snapshot policy

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