Manually Creating a Snapshot

Function

This API is used to manually create a snapshot.

URI

POST /v1.0/{project_id}/clusters/{cluster_id}/index_snapshot

**Table 1** Path Parameters
Parameter	Mandatory	Type	Description
project_id	Yes	String	Project ID. For details about how to obtain the project ID and name, see Obtaining the Project ID and Name.
cluster_id	Yes	String	ID of the cluster for which you want to create a snapshot.

Request Parameters

**Table 2** Request body parameters
Parameter	Mandatory	Type	Description
name	Yes	String	Snapshot name. Enter 4 to 64 characters. Lowercase letters, digits, hyphens (-), and underscores (_) are allowed. The value must start with a letter.
description	No	String	Snapshot description. The value can contain up to 256 characters and cannot contain the following characters: !<>=&"'
indices	No	String	Name of an index to be backed up. Multiple indexes are separated by commas (,). By default, all indexes are backed up. You can use the combination of a backslash and an asterisk () to back up data of certain indexes. For example, if you specify 2018-06, then the data of the indexes with the prefix 2018-06 will be backed up.The value can contain 0 to 1,024 characters. Uppercase letters, spaces, and the following special characters are not allowed: "\<\|>/?

Response Parameters

Status code: 201

**Table 3** Response body parameters
Parameter	Type	Description
backup	backupRsp object	Snapshot information.

**Table 4** backupRsp
Parameter	Type	Description
id	String	Snapshot ID
name	String	Snapshot name

Example Requests

Create a snapshot.

POST /v1.0/6204a5bd270343b5885144cf9c8c158d/clusters/4f3deec3-efa8-4598-bf91-560aad1377a3/index_snapshot

{
  "name" : "snapshot_001",
  "indices" : "myindex1myindex2"
}

Example Responses

Status code: 201

Resource created.

{
  "backup" : {
    "id" : "9dc4f5c9-33c0-45c7-9378-ae35ae350682",
    "name" : "snapshot_101"
  }
}

Status Codes

Status Code	Description
201	Resource created.
400	Invalid request. Modify the request before retry.
403	Request rejected.The server has received the request and understood it, but refused to respond to it. The client should not repeat the request without modifications.
406	The server could not fulfill the request according to the content characteristics of the request.
500	The server has received the request but could not understand it.
501	The server does not support the function required to fulfill the request.