• Snapshot Management
  • Snapshot Actions
  • Querying Snapshots
  • Creating Snapshots
  • Reverting Snapshots
  • Deleting Snapshots

Snapshot Management

Management of snapshots is provided for virtual machines and instances via the snapshots subcollection:

/api/vms/:id/snapshots

/api/instances/:id/snapshots

Snapshot Actions

The following snapshot actions are available for the supported resources:

• Querying Snapshots

• Creating Snapshots

• Reverting Snapshots

• Deleting Snapshots

Querying Snapshots

Snapshots of machines are queried via the subcollection of vms and instances as follows:

Querying all snapshots of a VM:

GET /api/vms/:id/snapshots

Querying all snapshots of an Instance:

GET /api/instances/:id/snapshots

Filtering, sorting and paging on the subcollection as mentioned on the Querying page.

For example:

GET /api/vms/11/snapshots?expand=resources&filter[]=name=test*

One can also fetch a single snapshot by id:

GET /api/vms/:id/snapshots/:snapshot_id

GET /api/instances/:id/snapshots/:snapshot_id

Creating Snapshots

Creating snapshots on Vms and Instances is done by posting the request to the snapshots subcollection.

POST /api/vms/:id/snapshots

POST /api/instances/:id/snapshots

{
  "name" : "name_of_new_snapshot",
  "description" : "Description of new Snapshot",
  "memory" : false
}

In the above example, only name is required. memory can be set to true to have the snapshot include physical memory.

Reverting Snapshots

Reverting snapshots is only available for Vms.

POST /api/vms/:id/snapshots/:snapshot_id

{
  "action" : "revert"
}

Deleting Snapshots

Individual snapshots of Vms and Instances can be deleted via the DELETE method as follows:

DELETE /api/vms/:id/snapshots/:snapshot_id

DELETE /api/instances/:id/snapshots/:snapshot_id

As well as the delete POST action as follows for VMs:

POST /api/vms/:id/snapshots/:snapshot_id

or instances:

POST /api/instances/:id/snapshots/:snapshot_id

{
  "action" : "delete"
}

Snapshots can also be deleted in bulk via the delete action on the snapshots subcollection as follows:

POST /api/vms/11/snapshots

{
  "action" : "delete",
  "resources" : [
    { "href" : "http://localhost:3000/api/vms/11/snapshots/3" },
    { "href" : "http://localhost:3000/api/vms/11/snapshots/4" },
    { "href" : "http://localhost:3000/api/vms/11/snapshots/5" }
  ]
}

As well as for instances:

POST /api/instances/201/snapshots

{
  "action" : "delete",
  "resources" : [
    { "href" : "http://localhost:3000/api/instances/201/snapshots/7" },
    { "href" : "http://localhost:3000/api/instances/201/snapshots/8" }
  ]
}