Initiates a snapshot of a gateway from a volume recovery point. This
operation is only supported in the cached volume gateway type.
A volume recovery point is a point in time at which all data of the
volume is consistent and from which you can create a snapshot. To get a
list of volume recovery point for cached volume gateway, use
list_volume_recovery_points
.
In the
create_snapshot_from_volume_recovery_point
request, you identify the volume by providing its Amazon Resource Name
(ARN). You must also provide a description for the snapshot. When the
gateway takes a snapshot of the specified volume, the snapshot and its
description appear in the AWS Storage Gateway console. In response, the
gateway returns you a snapshot ID. You can use this snapshot ID to check
the snapshot progress or later use it when you want to create a volume
from a snapshot.
To list or delete a snapshot, you must use the Amazon EC2 API. For more
information, see
DescribeSnapshots
or
DeleteSnapshot
in the Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud API Reference.