<p>Contains an array of <code>Transition</code> objects specifying how long in days before a recovery point transitions to cold storage or is deleted.</p> <p>Backups transitioned to cold storage must be stored in cold storage for a minimum of 90 days. Therefore, on the console, the “retention” setting must be 90 days greater than the “transition to cold after days” setting. The “transition to cold after days” setting cannot be changed after a backup has been transitioned to cold.</p> <p>Resource types that are able to be transitioned to cold storage are listed in the "Lifecycle to cold storage" section of the <a href="https://docs.aws.amazon.com/aws-backup/latest/devguide/whatisbackup.html#features-by-resource"> Feature availability by resource</a> table. Backup ignores this expression for other resource types.</p>

Specifies the IAM role ARN used to create the target recovery point; for example, <code>arn:aws:iam::123456789012:role/S3Access</code>.

An Amazon Resource Name (ARN) that uniquely identifies a resource. The format of the ARN depends on the resource type.

<p>Specifies the backup option for a selected resource. This option is only available for Windows Volume Shadow Copy Service (VSS) backup jobs.</p> <p>Valid values: Set to <code>"WindowsVSS":"enabled"</code> to enable the <code>WindowsVSS</code> backup option and create a Windows VSS backup. Set to <code>"WindowsVSS""disabled"</code> to create a regular backup. The <code>WindowsVSS</code> option is not enabled by default.</p>

The name of a logical container where backups are stored. Backup vaults are identified by names that are unique to the account used to create them and the Amazon Web Services Region where they are created. They consist of lowercase letters, numbers, and hyphens.

A customer-chosen string that you can use to distinguish between otherwise identical calls to <code>StartBackupJob</code>. Retrying a successful request with the same idempotency token results in a success message with no action taken.

To help organize your resources, you can assign your own metadata to the resources that you create. Each tag is a key-value pair.

A value in minutes after a backup is scheduled before a job will be canceled if it doesn't start successfully. This value is optional, and the default is 8 hours. If this value is included, it must be at least 60 minutes to avoid errors.

A value in minutes during which a successfully started backup must complete, or else Backup will cancel the job. This value is optional. This value begins counting down from when the backup was scheduled. It does not add additional time for <code>StartWindowMinutes</code>, or if the backup started later than scheduled.