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  • API Reference
      • GETList all snapshots (collection)
      • POSTCreate a snapshot (collection)
      • POSTRecover from an uploaded snapshot (collection)
      • PUTRecover from a snapshot (collection)
      • GETDownload a snapshot (collection)
      • DELDelete a snapshot (collection)
      • GETList all snapshots (storage)
      • POSTCreate a snapshot (storage)
      • GETDownload a snapshot (storage)
      • DELDelete a snapshot (storage)
      • POSTRecover from an uploaded snapshot (shard)
      • PUTRecover from a snapshot (shard)
      • GETList all snapshots (shard)
      • POSTCreate a snapshot (shard)
      • GETDownload a snapshot (shard)
      • DELDelete a snapshot (shard)
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API ReferenceSnapshots

Create a snapshot (storage)

POST
/snapshots
POST
/snapshots
$curl  -X POST \
>  'http://localhost:6333/snapshots' \
>  --header 'api-key: <api-key-value>'
200Successful
1{
2  "time": 0.002,
3  "status": "ok",
4  "result": {
5    "name": "string",
6    "size": 1,
7    "creation_time": "string",
8    "checksum": "string"
9  }
10}
Creates a new snapshot of the entire storage.
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Authentication

api-keystring
API Key authentication via header

Query parameters

waitbooleanOptional

If true, wait for changes to actually happen. If false - let changes happen in background. Default is true.

Response

successful operation
timedouble
Time spent to process this request
statusstring
resultobject