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Create snapshot policy

Authorizations

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Authorization
string
header
required

BASALTIC-HMAC-SHA256 request signing for service-account (access-key) auth. An AWS-SigV4-style scheme: an HMAC-SHA256 over a canonical request, keyed by a signing key derived from your secret access key. The basaltic CLI does this for you; the steps below are for a non-CLI client.

Headers you send

  • Authorization (this scheme) — format below.
  • X-Date: request time in UTC, compact ISO-8601 basic: YYYYMMDDTHHMMSSZ (e.g. 20240115T103000Z). Must be within 5 minutes of server time.
  • X-Nonce: random per-request value (e.g. 16+ bytes of hex). Required — it is what makes each signature unique so the server can reject replays. X-Date alone is not enough (one-second resolution; UNSIGNED-PAYLOAD never enters the canonical request).
  • X-Content-Sha256 (optional): lowercase-hex SHA-256 of the request body, to bind the exact bytes to the signature — the server re-hashes and rejects a mismatch. Omit it, and put the literal UNSIGNED-PAYLOAD in the body-hash slot, for an empty body or a streaming upload that shouldn't be buffered.

Authorization header format

  • <date>: YYYYMMDD (the day part of X-Date).
  • <region>: target region code (e.g. sa-saopaulo-1), or global for the region-agnostic (IAM) endpoints.
  • <service>: basaltic.
  • SignedHeaders: the covered header names, lowercased and sorted, joined by ; — at minimum host;x-date;x-nonce (all three required).
  • Signature: lowercase hex from step 4.
  • Note the , (comma + space) between the three Authorization parameters.

Step 1 — canonical request

Join these six lines with \n (LF):

  • canonical-path: the URL-escaped request path (e.g. /v1/compute/instances).
  • canonical-query: each query key and value URL-encoded, sorted by key then value, joined by &; empty string when there is no query.
  • canonical-headers: for each signed header, name:value (name lowercased, value trimmed), sorted by name, each followed by a trailing \n.
  • signed-headers: the same names, lowercased, sorted, joined by ;.
  • body-hash: lowercase-hex SHA-256 of the body, or the literal UNSIGNED-PAYLOAD.

Step 2 — string to sign

Join with \n:

The second line is the credential date at midnight — NOT the X-Date value — and the third is the credential scope without the access-key id.

Step 3 — derive the signing key (HMAC chain over your secret)

Step 4 — signature

Example (POST with a JSON body)

Request validity

  • Valid for 5 minutes from the X-Date timestamp.
  • The signature must cover at least host, x-date, and x-nonce.
  • Mutating requests (POST/PUT/PATCH/DELETE) that present a signed nonce are anti-replay guarded for the drift window; omitting X-Nonce is rejected.

Rate limits

There is no global request budget: a limit applies only where an operation documents a 429 response, and each such endpoint counts its own fixed window. Everything else is bounded by quota, not by request rate.

Per-endpoint request limits

A few endpoints are limited in front of the handler, counted per caller — the authenticated principal when the request carries credentials, the client IP otherwise. On this API surface that is the public region catalogue, GET /v1/regions: it guards no secret, and the budget is there because the catalogue is unauthenticated and database-backed.

An operation that is limited says so by documenting a 429. These responses — 429 and 2xx — carry the budget, so a client can pace itself instead of discovering the ceiling by hitting it:

  • X-RateLimit-Limit — requests allowed per window on this endpoint. Authoritative: read it rather than hard-coding a number.
  • X-RateLimit-Remaining — requests left in the window (0 on a 429).
  • X-RateLimit-Reset — seconds until the window resets. A duration, not a timestamp, so it needs no clock agreement.
  • Retry-After — on a 429 only; seconds to wait. Never zero.

Over the limit the response is 429 with error code RATE_LIMITED. Honor Retry-After — retrying sooner is refused and extends the window, since the refused attempt is itself counted.

Service-level limits

Some resources meter the work itself rather than the request, and are documented on the operation. They return 429 with their own error code and no rate-limit headers, because the budget is not a per-endpoint window: sending email is capped per (account, identity) per second (EMAIL_RATE_LIMIT), and charge attempts are capped per invoice (INVOICE_PAYMENT_ATTEMPTS_EXHAUSTED).

Headers

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Idempotency-Key
string

Optional client-generated key that makes a create replay-safe. Retrying a request with the same key returns the original outcome verbatim instead of creating a duplicate resource. Reusing a key with a different request body is rejected (422); a request whose key is still being processed returns 409. Records are honored for 24 hours. Use a UUID or similarly unique token.

Maximum string length: 255

Body

application/json
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volume_id
string<uuid>
required
Example:

"5f8d2c1a-9b3e-4d7a-8c6f-1e2a3b4c5d6e"

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name
string
required

Unique within the account — it names the policy in its CRN. Scheduled snapshots are named <policy>-<UTC timestamp>.

Required string length: 1 - 128
Example:

"nightly"

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interval_minutes
integer
required

Minutes between snapshots — a minimum gap, not an exact cadence. A periodic pass takes whatever has come due and re-bases each policy's next run off the moment it ran, so a snapshot lands at or after interval_minutes and never before, and can land a minute or two later when the pass is busy. A window the pass misses costs one snapshot rather than producing a catch-up burst afterwards.

The floor is one minute, because that pass is what evaluates the schedule and nothing finer can be honoured; the ceiling is 30 days. Sub-hourly intervals multiply Ceph snapshot churn and count against the snapshots quota, so pick the largest interval that meets your recovery point objective.

Required range: 1 <= x <= 43200
Example:

1440

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retention_count
integer
required

How many of this policy's snapshots to keep. When a fire takes the count past this, the oldest go first.

Required range: 1 <= x <= 256
Example:

7

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description
string
Example:

"Nightly snapshots of the database volume"

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retention_days
integer
default:0

Optional age bound, applied on top of retention_count: a snapshot outside EITHER window is reaped. 0 means no age bound. The single newest snapshot is exempt from the age bound, so a volume that could not be snapshotted for longer than the window never loses its whole history.

Required range: 0 <= x <= 3650
Example:

30

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enabled
boolean
default:true

Defaults to true. Set false to attach a paused schedule. Pausing stops the whole policy — no snapshots are taken and none are deleted, because a paused schedule that kept reaping would delete history while you were looking at it.

Example:

true

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tags
object
Example:

Response

Snapshot policy created

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snapshot_policy
object

A schedule attached to one volume: take a snapshot every interval_minutes, then keep at most retention_count of the snapshots this policy created.

Retention only ever deletes snapshots the policy itself created (those carrying its snapshot_policy_id) — a snapshot taken by hand is never reaped. It also never deletes a snapshot something depends on: a snapshot a volume was created from, including a restore still in progress, is skipped and re-examined later.