blockstorage.md

Using the 1&1 Block Storage provider

BETA - This API may change as additional providers for block storage are added to pkgcloud

Creating a block-storage client is straight-forward:

  var oneandone = pkgcloud.blockstorage.createClient({
    provider: 'oneandone', // required
    token: 'apikey', // required
   });

More options for creating clients

• Snapshot
  • Model
  • APIs

Snapshot Model

A Snapshot for BlockStorage has the following properties:

{
  id: '12345678-1111-2222-3333-123456789012', // id of the snapshot
}

Snapshot APIs

client.getSnapshots(options, callback)

Returns a list of the server's snapshots.

Callback returns f(err, snapshots) where snapshots is an Array. options is an optional boolean which will return the full snapshot details if true.

client.createSnapshot(details, callback)

Creates a snapshot with the details specified

Options are as follows:

{
  server: '81504C620D98BCEBAA5202D145203B4B',//Server or Server id to create the snapshot from
}

Returns the new snapshot in the callback f(err, snapshot)

client.deleteSnapshot(snapshot, callback)

Removes a snapshot

Takes snapshot or snapshotId as an argument and returns an error if unsuccessful f(err)

client.updateSnapshot(snapshot, callback)

Restores a snapshot into the server.

Returns callback with a confirmation