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CreateSnapshot

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You can use CreateSnapshot to create a point-in-time copy of a volume. You can create a snapshot from any volume or from an existing snapshot.

If you do not provide a SnapshotID with this API method, a snapshot is created from the volume's active branch. If the volume from which the snapshot is created is being replicated to a remote cluster, the snapshot can also be replicated to the same target. Use the enableRemoteReplication parameter to enable snapshot replication.

Note You can create snapshots if cluster fullness is at stage 1, 2, or 3. You cannot create snapshots when cluster fullness reaches stage 4 or 5.

Parameters

This method has the following input parameters:

Name Description Type Default value Required

attributes

List of name-value pairs in JSON object format.

JSON object

None

No

enableRemoteReplication

Specifies whether the snapshot will be replicated to remote storage or not. Possible values:

  • true: The snapshot will be replicated to remote storage.

  • false: The snapshot will not be replicated to remote storage.

boolean

false

No

ensureSerialCreation

Specifies that the snapshot should not be created if a previous snapshot replication is in progress. Possible values are:

  • true: This ensures that only one snapshot is being replicated at a time. The creation of a new snapshot will fail if a previous snapshot replication is still in progress.

  • false: Default. This snapshot creation is allowed if another snapshot replication is still in progress.

boolean

false

No

expirationTime

Specify the time after which the snapshot can be removed. Cannot be used with retention. If neither expirationTime or retention are specified the snapshot will not expire. The time format is an ISO 8601 date string for time based expiration, otherwise it will not expire. A value of null causes the snapshot to be retained permanently. A value of fifo causes the snapshot to be preserved on a First-In-First-Out basis, relative to other FIFO snapshots on the volume. The API will fail if no FIFO space is available.

string

None

No

name

The name of the snapshot. If no name is entered, the date and time the snapshot was taken is used. The maximum name length allowed is 255 characters.

string

None

No

retention

This parameter is same as the expirationTime parameter, except the time format is HH:mm:ss. If neither expirationTime nor retention are specified, the snapshot will not expire.

string

None

No

snapMirrorLabel

The label used by SnapMirror software to specify the snapshot retention policy on a SnapMirror endpoint.

string

None

No

snapshotID

Unique ID of a snapshot from which the new snapshot is made. The snapshotID passed must be a snapshot on the given volume.

integer

None

No

volumeID

Unique ID of the volume image from which to copy.

integer

None

Yes

Return values

This method has the following return values:

Name

Description

Type

checksum

A string that represents the correct digits in the stored snapshot. This checksum can be used later to compare other snapshots to detect errors in the data.

string

snapshotID

Unique ID of the new snapshot.

Snapshot ID

snapshot

An object containing information about the newly created snapshot.

snapshot

Request example

Requests for this method are similar to the following example:

{
   "method": "CreateSnapshot",
   "params": {
      "volumeID": 1
   },
   "id": 1
}

Response example

This method returns a response similar to the following example:

{
  "id": 1,
  "result": {
    "checksum": "0x0",
      "snapshot": {
        "attributes": {},
        "checksum": "0x0",
        "createTime": "2016-04-04T17:14:03Z",
        "enableRemoteReplication": false,
        "expirationReason": "None",
        "expirationTime": null,
        "groupID": 0,
        "groupSnapshotUUID": "00000000-0000-0000-0000-000000000000",
        "name": "2016-04-04T17:14:03Z",
        "snapshotID": 3110,
        "snapshotUUID": "6f773939-c239-44ca-9415-1567eae79646",
        "status": "done",
        "totalSize": 5000658944,
        "virtualVolumeID": null,
        "volumeID": 1
      },
        "snapshotID": 3110
  }
}

Exception

An xNotPrimary exception is displayed when the CreateSnapshot API is called and the snapshot fails to get created. This is expected behavior. Retry the CreateSnapshot API call.

New since version

9.6