Requires authorization
Creates a snapshot of this disk. Try it now .
Request
HTTP request
POST https://www.googleapis.com/compute/v1/projects/project/zones/zone/disks/disk/createSnapshot
Parameters
Parameter name | Value | Description |
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Path parameters | ||
disk
|
string
|
Name of the persistent disk resource to create. |
project
|
string
|
Name of the project scoping this request. |
zone
|
string
|
Name of the zone scoping this request. |
Authorization
This request requires authorization with the following scope ( read more about authentication and authorization ).
Scope |
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https://www.googleapis.com/auth/compute
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Request body
In the request body, supply data with the following structure:
{ "kind": "compute#snapshot", "selfLink": string, "id": unsigned long, "creationTimestamp": string, "status": string, "diskSizeGb": long, "sourceDisk": string, "name": string, "description": string, "sourceDiskId": string, "storageBytes": long, "storageBytesStatus": string }
Property name | Value | Description | Notes |
---|---|---|---|
kind
|
string
|
Type of the resource. | |
selfLink
|
string
|
Server defined URL for the resource (output only). | |
id
|
unsigned long
|
Unique identifier for the resource; defined by the server (output only). | |
creationTimestamp
|
string
|
Creation timestamp in RFC3339 text format (output only). | |
status
|
string
|
The status of the persistent disk snapshot (output only).
Acceptable values are:
|
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diskSizeGb
|
long
|
Size of the persistent disk snapshot, specified in GB (output only). | |
sourceDisk
|
string
|
The source disk used to create this snapshot. Once the source disk has been deleted from the system, this field will be cleared, and will not be set even if a disk with the same name has been re-created (output only). | |
name
|
string
|
Name of the resource; provided by the client when the resource is created. The name must be 1-63 characters long, and comply with RFC1035. | |
description
|
string
|
An optional textual description of the resource; provided by the client when the resource is created. | |
sourceDiskId
|
string
|
The 'id' value of the disk used to create this snapshot. This value may be used to determine whether the snapshot was taken from the current or a previous instance of a given disk name. | |
storageBytes
|
long
|
A size of the the storage used by the snapshot. As snapshots share storage this number is expected to change with snapshot creation/deletion. | |
storageBytesStatus
|
string
|
An indicator whether storageBytes is in a stable state, or it is being adjusted as a result of shared storage reallocation.
Acceptable values are:
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Response
If successful, this method returns a ZoneOperations resource in the response body.
{ "kind": "compute#operation", "id": unsigned long, "creationTimestamp": string, "name": string, "zone": string, "clientOperationId": string, "operationType": string, "targetLink": string, "targetId": unsigned long, "status": string, "statusMessage": string, "user": string, "progress": integer, "insertTime": string, "startTime": string, "endTime": string, "error": { "errors": [ { "code": string, "location": string, "message": string } ] }, "warnings": [ { "code": string, "message": string, "data": [ { "key": string, "value": string } ] } ], "httpErrorStatusCode": integer, "httpErrorMessage": string, "selfLink": string, "region": string }
Property name | Value | Description | Notes |
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clientOperationId
|
string
|
[Output Only] An optional identifier specified by the client when the mutation was initiated. Must be unique for all operation resources in the project. | |
creationTimestamp
|
string
|
[Output Only] Creation timestamp in RFC3339 text format. | |
endTime
|
string
|
[Output Only] The time that this operation was completed. This is in RFC3339 text format. | |
error
|
object
|
[Output Only] If errors occurred during processing of this operation, this field will be populated. | |
error.
errors[]
|
list
|
[Output Only] The array of errors encountered while processing this operation. | |
error.errors[].
code
|
string
|
[Output Only] The error type identifier for this error. | |
error.errors[].
location
|
string
|
[Output Only] Indicates the field in the request which caused the error. This property is optional. | |
error.errors[].
message
|
string
|
[Output Only] An optional, human-readable error message. | |
httpErrorMessage
|
string
|
[Output Only]
If operation fails, the HTTP error message returned, e.g.
NOT FOUND
.
|
|
httpErrorStatusCode
|
integer
|
[Output Only]
If operation fails, the HTTP error status code returned, e.g.
404
.
|
|
id
|
unsigned long
|
[Output Only] Unique identifier for the resource, generated by the server. | |
insertTime
|
string
|
[Output Only] The time that this operation was requested. This is in RFC3339 text format. | |
kind
|
string
|
[Output Only]
Type of the resource. Always
compute#operation
for Operation resources.
|
|
name
|
string
|
[Output Only] Name of the resource. | |
operationType
|
string
|
[Output Only]
Type of the operation. Operations include
insert
,
update
, and
delete
.
|
|
progress
|
integer
|
[Output Only] An optional progress indicator that ranges from 0 to 100. There is no requirement that this be linear or support any granularity of operations. This should not be used to guess at when the operation will be complete. This number should be monotonically increasing as the operation progresses. | |
region
|
string
|
[Output Only] URL of the region where the operation resides. Only available when performing regional operations. | |
selfLink
|
string
|
[Output Only] Server-defined fully-qualified URL for this resource. | |
startTime
|
string
|
[Output Only] The time that this operation was started by the server. This is in RFC3339 text format. | |
status
|
string
|
[Output Only]
Status of the operation.
Acceptable values are:
|
|
statusMessage
|
string
|
[Output Only] An optional textual description of the current status of the operation. | |
targetId
|
unsigned long
|
[Output Only] Unique target id which identifies a particular incarnation of the target. | |
targetLink
|
string
|
[Output Only] URL of the resource the operation is mutating. | |
user
|
string
|
[Output Only]
User who requested the operation, for example:
[email protected]
.
|
|
warnings[]
|
list
|
[Output Only] If there are issues with this operation, a warning is returned. | |
warnings[].
code
|
string
|
[Output Only]
The warning type identifier for this warning.
Acceptable values are:
|
|
warnings[].
data[]
|
list
|
[Output Only] Metadata for this warning in 'key: value' format. | |
warnings[].data[].
key
|
string
|
[Output Only] Metadata key for this warning. | |
warnings[].data[].
value
|
string
|
[Output Only] Metadata value for the specified key. | |
warnings[].
message
|
string
|
[Output Only] Optional human-readable details for this warning. | |
zone
|
string
|
[Output Only] URL of the zone where the operation resides. Only available when performing per-zone operations. |
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