Copy Application Snapshot (v1)

REST Resource

POST /interop/rest/v1/services/{servicename}/copysnapshot

Table 2-218 Tasks for Copy Application Snapshot

Task	Request	REST Resource
Trigger copysnapshot	POST	/interop/rest/{api_version}/services/{servicename}/copysnapshot
Retrieve copysnapshot status	GET	/interop/rest/{api_version}/services/{servicename}/copysnapshot/777

Request

Supported Media Types: application/x-www-form-urlencoded

Response

Supported Media Types: application/x-www-form-urlencoded

Table 2-219 Parameters

Name	Description	Type	Required	Default
serviceName	Name of the service, such as PBCS	Path	Yes	None
snapshotName	Name of the snapshot to be copied	Form	Yes	None
userName	User with access to the source instance	Form	Yes	None
fpwd	The Base64-encoded password for the source user.	Form	Yes	None
sourceURL	The URL of the source instance Note: This API also supports the previous name of this parameter, targetURL.	Form	Yes	None

Table 2-220 Parameters

Name	Description
details	In the case of errors, details are published with the error string
status	See Migration Status Codes
links	Detailed information about the link
href	Links to API call or status API
action	The HTTP call type
rel	Possible values: self or Job Status. If the value is set to Job Status, you can use the href to get the status of the copy snapshot
data	Parameters as key value pairs passed in the request

Example of Response Body

{
  "status": -1,
  "items": null,
  "links": [
    {
      "rel": "self",
      "href": "https://<BASE-URL>/interop/rest/v1/services/<SERVICE_TYPE>/copysnapshot",
      "data": null,
      "action": "POST"
    },
    {
      "rel": "Job Status",
      "href": "https://<BASE-URL>/interop/rest/v1/services/<SERVICE_TYPE>/copysnapshot/<JOB_ID>",
      "data": null,
      "action": "GET"
    }
  ],
  "details": null
}

cURL Sample

funcCopySnapshot() {
		url=$SERVER_URL/interop/rest/v1/services/PBCS/copysnapshot
		
		snapshotName="SNAPSHOT NAME"
		srcUserName="USER NAME"	
		targetURL="https://<BASE-URL>";	
		srcDomain=""

		fpwd="BASE64-ENCODED PASSWORD"
		
if [ "X" == "X$ srcDomain " ]; then 
param="snapshotName=$snapshotName&userName=$srcUserName &fpwd=$fpwd&sourceURL=$targetURL"
else
param="snapshotName=$snapshotName&userName=$srcUserName &fpwd=$fpwd&targetURL=$sourceURL&dom=$srcDomain"
fi	
		
		funcExecuteRequest "POST" $url $param "application/x-www-form-urlencoded"
		output=`cat response.txt`
		status=`echo $output | jq '.status'`
		if [ $status == -1 ]; then
		echo "Started Copysnapshot"
		funcGetStatus "GET"
		else
		error=`echo $output | jq '.details'`
		echo "Error occurred. " $error
		fi
		funcRemoveTempFiles "respHeader.txt" "response.txt"
}