Volumes
Volume Clone
https://api.linode.com/v4/volumes/{volumeId}/clone
Creates a Volume on your Account. In order for this request to complete successfully, your User must have the add_volumes
grant. The new Volume will have the same size and data as the source Volume. Creating a new Volume will incur a charge on your Account.
- Only Volumes with a
status
of "active" can be cloned.
Path Parameters
ID of the Volume to clone.
Request Body Schema
The Volume's label is for display purposes only.
Request Samples
- Shell
- CLI
curl -H "Content-Type: application/json" \
-H "Authorization: Bearer $TOKEN" \
-X POST -d '{
"label": "my-volume"
}' \
https://api.linode.com/v4/volumes/12345/clone
Response Samples
- 200
- default
{
"status": "active",
"created": "2018-01-01T00:01:01",
"updated": "2018-01-01T00:01:01",
"id": 1234,
"label": "my-volume",
"region": "us-east",
"tags": [],
"size": 30,
"linode_id": 12346,
"filesystem_path": "/dev/disk/by-id/scsi-0Linode_Volume_my-volume",
"linode_label": "linode123",
"hardware_type": "nvme"
}
Responses
200: Clone started.
The current status of the volume. Can be one of:
creating
- the Volume is being created and is not yet available for use.active
- the Volume is online and available for use.resizing
- the Volume is in the process of upgrading its current capacity.
When this Volume was created.
When this Volume was last updated.
The unique ID of this Volume.
The Volume's label is for display purposes only.
The unique ID of this Region.
An array of Tags applied to this object. Tags are for organizational purposes only.
The Volume's size, in GiB.
If a Volume is attached to a specific Linode, the ID of that Linode will be displayed here.
The full filesystem path for the Volume based on the Volume's label. Path is /dev/disk/by-id/scsi-0LinodeVolume + Volume label.
If a Volume is attached to a specific Linode, the label of that Linode will be displayed here.
The storage type of this Volume.
default: Error
What happened to cause this error. In most cases, this can be fixed immediately by changing the data you sent in the request, but in some cases you will be instructed to open a Support Ticket or perform some other action before you can complete the request successfully.
The field in the request that caused this error. This may be a path, separated by periods in the case of nested fields. In some cases this may come back as "null" if the error is not specific to any single element of the request.