API Call to do save new dbsnapshot?

bencrouse · ‎04-08-2021

Is there an example API call to kick off a dbsnapshot? I want to schedule hourly DB snapshots, if possible. The entire gridmaster backup hourly was causing issues with API calls. Im hoping the dbsnapshot will be a bit lighter and faster and will not cause interruption.

kvasudevan · ‎04-09-2021

Hi,

You can a snapshot using the following WAPI:

curl -k -u username:password --location --request POST 'https://grid-masterwapi/v2.10/dbsnapshot?_function=save_db_snapshot' 
--header 'Content-Type: application/json' \
--data-raw '{
    "comment" : "Testing WAPI"
}'

Hope you find this helpful,

Krishna Vasudevan

bencrouse · ‎04-09-2021

Thanks for the example but its returning a 404.

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kvasudevan · ‎04-09-2021

Hi,

Could you please share the WAPI you are issuing?

Regards,

Krishna

bencrouse · ‎04-09-2021

Using Postman:

kvasudevan · ‎04-09-2021

I am unable to see the image. Could you please try adding it as an attachment?

bencrouse · ‎04-09-2021

It does not appear my screen shot is loading..... =/

using Postman:

POST https://<labgridmaster>/v2.7.3/dbsnapshot?_function=save_db_snapshot

settings Headers in the Header section.

getting the 'Page Not Found' 404 status error page from the Gridmaster.

kvasudevan · ‎04-09-2021

Hi,

Could you please change the URL to

https://<labgridmaster>/wapi/v2.7.3/dbsnapshot?_function=save_db_snapshot

bencrouse · ‎04-09-2021

That worked, but needed to make slight change to the params...

POST https://<labgirdmaster>/wapi/v2.7.3/dbsnapshot?_function=save_db_snapshot&comment="test wapi"

it returns a "_ref" as expected.

bencrouse · ‎04-09-2021

Here is what it looks like in Python. Pretty simple.

#!/usr/bin/env python3
import http.client
import time

dt = time.strftime("%Y-%m-%d_%H.%M.%S")
fn = 'HourlySnapshot-{}'.format(dt)

conn = http.client.HTTPSConnection("<FQDN>")
payload = ''
headers = {
'Authorization': 'Basic <TOKEN>',
}

baseurl="/wapi/v2.7.3/dbsnapshot?_function=save_db_snapshot&comment="+fn

conn.request("POST", baseurl, payload, headers)
res = conn.getresponse()
data = res.read()
print(data.decode("utf-8"))

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