---
title: "Trigger the creation of an instance snapshot associated with the provided session."
method: POST
path: "/cloudmigration/migration/{uid}/snapshot"
tags: ["migrations"]
---

# Trigger the creation of an instance snapshot associated with the provided session.

`POST /cloudmigration/migration/{uid}/snapshot`

## Request

- Base URL: `/api` (relative, and the document’s source URL is not known)
- URL: `/api/cloudmigration/migration/{uid}/snapshot`
- Auth: one of:
  - HTTP basic
  - API key in header `Authorization`

If the snapshot initialization is successful, the snapshot uid is returned.

## Path parameters

- `uid` string, required

## Request body

- CreateSnapshotRequestDTO
  - `resourceTypes` string[]

## Response `200`

(empty)

- CreateSnapshotResponseDTO
  - `uid` string

## Other responses

- `400`: BadRequestError is returned when the request is invalid and it cannot be processed.
- `401`: UnauthorizedError is returned when the request is not authenticated.
- `403`: ForbiddenError is returned if the user/token has insufficient permissions to access the requested resource.
- `500`: InternalServerError is a general error indicating something went wrong internally.

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