Required. The name of the Managed Lustre instance in the format projects/{project}/locations/{location}/instances/{instance}.
Request body
The request body contains data with the following structure:
JSON representation
{"requestId": string,"serviceAccount": string,// Union field source can be only one of the following:"gcsPath": {object (GcsPath)}// End of list of possible types for union field source.// Union field destination can be only one of the following:"lustrePath": {object (LustrePath)}// End of list of possible types for union field destination.}
Fields
requestId
string
Optional. UUID to identify requests.
serviceAccount
string
Optional. User-specified service account used to perform the transfer. If unspecified, the default Managed Lustre service agent will be used.
Union field source. A Cloud Storage URI of a folder to import file data from, in the form of gs://<bucket_name>/<path_inside_bucket>/. source can be only one of the following:
The Cloud Storage source bucket and, optionally, path inside the bucket. If a path inside the bucket is specified, it must end with a forward slash (/).
Union field destination. The destination of the data transfer. destination can be only one of the following:
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