Creating a Restore Point

Function

This API is used to back up a vault and generate a restore point.

URI

POST /v3/{project_id}/checkpoints

**Table 1** Path Parameters
Parameter	Mandatory	Type	Description
project_id	Yes	String	Project ID

Request Parameters

**Table 2** Request header parameters
Parameter	Mandatory	Type	Description
X-Auth-Token	Yes	String	User token The token can be obtained by calling the IAM API used to obtain a user token. The value of X-Subject-Token in the response header is the user token.

**Table 3** Request body parameters
Parameter	Mandatory	Type	Description
checkpoint	Yes	VaultBackup object	Parameters for backing up the vault

**Table 4** VaultBackup
Parameter	Mandatory	Type	Description
parameters	No	CheckpointParam object	Parameters
vault_id	Yes	String	Vault ID

**Table 5** CheckpointParam
Parameter	Mandatory	Type	Description
auto_trigger	No	Boolean	Whether automatic triggering is enabled. Possible values are true (yes) and false (no). Default: false
description	No	String	Backup description Minimum: 0 Maximum: 255
incremental	No	Boolean	Whether the backup is an incremental backup. Possible values are true (yes) and false (no). Default: true
name	No	String	Backup name, which can contain only digits, letters, underscores (_), and hyphens (-) Minimum: 1 Maximum: 64
resources	No	Array of strings	UUID list of resources to be backed up
resource_details	No	Array of Resource objects	Resource details Array Length: 0 - 256

**Table 6** Resource
Parameter	Mandatory	Type	Description
extra_info	No	ResourceExtraInfo object	Extra information of the resource
id	Yes	String	ID of the resource to be backed up
name	No	String	Name of the resource to be backed up. The value consists of 0 to 255 characters. Minimum: 0 Maximum: 255
type	Yes	String	\|-

**Table 7** ResourceExtraInfo
Parameter	Mandatory	Type	Description
exclude_volumes	No	Array of strings	IDs of the disks that will not be backed up. This parameter is used when servers are added to a vault, which include all server disks. But some disks do not need to be backed up. Or in case that a server was previously added and some disks on this server do not need to be backed up.

Response Parameters

Status code: 200

**Table 8** Response body parameters
Parameter	Type	Description
checkpoint	CheckpointCreate object	Restore point information

**Table 9** CheckpointCreate
Parameter	Type	Description
created_at	String	Creation time, for example, 2020-02-05T10:38:34.209782
id	String	Restore point ID
project_id	String	Project ID
status	String	Status Enumeration values: available deleting protecting deleted error-deleting error
vault	CheckpointPlanCreate object	Vault information
extra_info	CheckpointExtraInfoResp object	Extended information

**Table 10** CheckpointPlanCreate
Parameter	Type	Description
id	String	Vault ID
name	String	Vault name
resources	Array of CheckpointResourceResp objects	Backup objects
skipped_resources	Array of CheckpointCreateSkippedResource objects	Resources skipped during backup

**Table 11** CheckpointResourceResp
Parameter	Type	Description
extra_info	String	Extra information of the resource
id	String	ID of the resource to be backed up
name	String	Name of the resource to be backed up
protect_status	String	Protected status Enumeration values: available error protecting restoring removing
resource_size	String	Allocated capacity for the associated resource, in GB
type	String	\|-
backup_size	String	Backup size
backup_count	String	Number of backups

**Table 12** CheckpointCreateSkippedResource
Parameter	Type	Description
id	String	Resource ID
type	String	Resource type
name	String	Resource name
code	String	For details, see Error Codes.
reason	String	Reason for the skipping. For example, the resource is being backed up.

**Table 13** CheckpointExtraInfoResp
Parameter	Type	Description
name	String	Backup name
description	String	Backup description
retention_duration	Integer	Number of days that backups can be retained

Example Requests

Automatically backing up a vault and generating a restore point

POST https://{endpoint}/v3/f841e01fd2b14e7fa41b6ae7aa6b0594/checkpoints

{
  "checkpoint" : {
    "parameters" : {
      "auto_trigger" : true,
      "description" : "backup_description",
      "incremental" : true,
      "name" : "backup_name",
      "resources" : [ "94eba8b2-acc9-4d82-badc-127144cc5526" ]
    },
    "vault_id" : "3b5816b5-f29c-4172-9d9a-76c719a659ce"
  }
}

Example Responses

Status code: 200

{
  "checkpoint" : {
    "status" : "protecting",
    "created_at" : "2019-05-10T07:59:12.733+00:00",
    "vault" : {
      "skipped_resources" : [ ],
      "id" : "3b5816b5-f29c-4172-9d9a-76c719a659ce",
      "resources" : [ {
        "name" : "ecs-1f0f-0002",
        "resource_size" : 40,
        "protect_status" : "available",
        "type" : "OS::Nova::Server",
        "id" : "94eba8b2-acc9-4d82-badc-127144cc5526"
      } ],
      "name" : "vault-be94"
    },
    "project_id" : "4229d7a45436489f8c3dc2b1d35d4987",
    "id" : "8b0851a8-adf3-4f4c-a914-dead08bf9664",
    "extra_info" : {
      "retention_duration" : -1,
      "name" : "backup_name",
      "description" : "backup_description"
    }
  }
}