ServerSnapshotCreate

This operation will create a new server snapshot of a server. Server snapshot creation is asynchronous, the progress can be checked with the URL in the response Location header or the self link in the body.

POST /accounts/{accountId}/flexcloud/servers/{server_id}/snapshots

This operation will create a new server snapshot. Server snapshot creation is asynchronous, the progress can be checked with the URL in the response Location header or the self link in the body.

Parameters

accountId - string

The selected account Id.

server_id

The unique identifier of the server.

JSON

{
    "snapshot": {
        "name": "{name}", 
        "description": "{description}"
    }
}

name - string

Display name for this server snapshot

description - string

Description for this server snapshot

Result

JSON

{
    "snapshot": {
        "id": "{snapshot_id}", 
        "name": "{snapshot_name}"
        "description": "{description}", 
        "status": "{status}", 
        "guid": "{guid}", 
        "parent_guid": "{parent_guid}", 
        "relation_guid": "{relation_guid}", 
        "create_time": "{create_time}", 
        "links": [{"href": "http://{api_server}/accounts/{accountId}/flexcloud/servers/{server_id}/snapshots/{snapshot_id}/", 
                   "rel": "self"}], 
    }
}

• When a server snapshot is in pending status (has not completed the provisioning process), the create_time, guid, parent_guid, and relation_guid will be empty strings.

id - string

Unique identifier for this server snapshot.

name - string

Display name of this server snapshot.

description - string

Description of this server snapshot.

guid - string

GUID of this server snapshot.

parent_guid - string

Parent GUID of this server snapshot.

relation_guid - string

Relation GUID of this server snapshot.

status - string

Status of this server snapshot; Values: 'ACTIVE', 'BUILD', 'DELETED'

create_time - string

Created time of this server snapshot

links - array

Hypermedia for this resource.

Response Codes

Success

HTTP/1.1 202 Accepted

Request is accepted.

Failure

HTTP/1.1 400 Bad Request

The snapshot cannot be created because the server contains extra volumes.

HTTP/1.1 404 itemNotFound

The resource does not exist

HTTP/1.1 409 Conflict

The snapshot name must be unique in a server.

HTTP/1.1 413 Request entity too large

The snapshot can be created up to 3 in a server.

Examples

Successfully create a new server

POST http://{api_server}/accounts/{accountId}/flexcloud/servers/{server_id}/snapshots

Request Headers:

   Content-Type:application/json
   Charset=UTF-8
   Authorization:Base64-encoded username & password string

Request Body:

{
    "snapshot": {
        "name": "fitnesse snapshot", 
        "description": "fitnesse test snapshot"
    }
}

Response Code:

HTTP/1.1 202 Accepted

Response Body:

{
    "snapshot": {
        "id": "snapshot_jello614636-USOTE-0214_2012Jul19_m5yf9Bz8a", 
        "name": "test snapshot"
        "description": "test snapshot description", 
        "status": "BUILD", 
        "guid": "", 
        "parent_guid": "", 
        "relation_guid": "", 
        "create_time": "0000-00-00 00:00:00", 
        "links": [
            {"href": "http://{api_server}/accounts/{accountId}/flexcloud/servers/{server_id}/snapshots/snapshot_jello614636-USOTE-0214_2012Jul19_m5yf9Bz8a/", 
             "rel": "self"}], 
    }
}

Failure while trying to update server with a wrong account number

POST http://{api_server}/accounts/fake/flexcloud/servers/{server_id}/snapshots

Response Code:

HTTP/1.1 404 Not Found

Alternative URI /servers/{server_id}/snapshots

An alternative way to execute this call is to omit the accountId portion of the URI. In this case the system assumes the request is executed for the account identified in the authorization header.

POST /servers/{server_id}/snapshots