# Provision a new VDB by snapshot.

Endpoint: POST /vdbs/provision_by_snapshot
Version: 3.17.0
Security: ApiKeyAuth

## Security:

  - `ApiKeyAuth` (unknown)
    apiKey in header Authorization

## Request body:

  - `application/json` (unknown)
    The parameters to provision a VDB.

## Request fields (application/json):

  - `snapshot_id` (string)
    The ID of the snapshot from which to execute the operation. If the snapshot_id is not, selects the latest snapshot.

  - `engine_id` (string)
    The ID of the Engine onto which to provision. If the source ID unambiguously identifies a source object, this parameter is unnecessary and ignored.
    Example: engine-123

  - `source_data_id` (string)
    The ID of the source object (dSource or VDB) to provision from. All other objects referenced by the parameters must live on the same engine as the source. If this property is not set, the data_source of the snapshot_id will be used.
    Example: source-123

  - `make_current_account_owner` (boolean)
    Whether the account provisioning this VDB must be configured as owner of the VDB.

## Request examples:

  - `Oracle - Without Optionals` (unknown)
    The above request example is intended for Oracle Database without including optional properties

  - `Oracle - Single Tenant Request` (unknown)
    The above request example is intended for Oracle Single Tenant Database with all possible properties that can be set in request body.

  - `Oracle - Multitenant with existing CDB` (unknown)
    The above request example is intended for Oracle Multitenant Database with existing CDB.

  - `Oracle - Multitenant with new vCDB` (unknown)
    The above request example is intended for Oracle Multitenant Database with new vCDB.

  - `MS-SQL Database` (unknown)
    The above request example is intended for MS-SQL Database

  - `ASE Database` (unknown)
    The above request example is intended for Sybase Database

## Response 200:

  - `200` (unknown)
    VDB provisioning initiated.

## Response 200 fields (application/json):

  - `job` (object)
    An asynchronous task.

  - `job.id` (string)
    The Job entity ID.
    Example: job-123

  - `job.status` (string)
    The status of the job.
    Enum: "PENDING", "STARTED", "TIMEDOUT", "RUNNING", "CANCELED", "FAILED", "SUSPENDED", "WAITING", "COMPLETED", "ABANDONED"

  - `job.is_waiting_for_telemetry` (boolean)
    Indicates that the operations performed by this Job have completed successfully, but the object changes are not yet reflected. This is only set when when the JOB is in STARTED status, with the guarantee that the job will not transition to the FAILED status. Note that this flag will likely be replaced with a new status in future API versions and be deprecated.

  - `job.type` (string)
    The type of job being done.
    Example: DB_REFRESH

  - `job.localized_type` (string)
    The i18n translated type of job being done.
    Example: DB Refresh

  - `job.error_details` (string)
    Details about the failure for FAILED jobs.
    Example: Unable to connect to the engine.

  - `job.warning_message` (string)
    Warnings for the job.
    Example: Failed to remove local MaskingJob, engineId: 3 localMaskingJobId: 7.

  - `job.target_id` (string)
    A reference to the job's target.
    Example: vdb-123

  - `job.target_name` (string)
    A reference to the job's target name.
    Example: vdb

  - `job.start_time` (string)
    The time the job started executing.
    Example: 2022-01-02T05:11:24.148Z

  - `job.update_time` (string)
    The time the job was last updated.
    Example: 2022-01-02T06:11:24.148Z

  - `job.trace_id` (string)
    traceId of the request which created this Job

  - `job.engine_ids` (array)
    IDs of the engines this Job is executing on.

  - `job.tags` (array)

  - `job.tags.key` (string, required)
    Key of the tag
    Example: key-1

  - `job.tags.value` (string, required)
    Value of the tag
    Example: value-1

  - `job.engines` (array)

  - `job.engines.engine_id` (string)

  - `job.engines.engine_name` (string)

  - `job.account_id` (integer)
    The ID of the account who initiated this job.
    Example: 1

  - `job.account_name` (string)
    The account name which initiated this job. It can be either firstname and lastname combination or firstname or lastname or username or email address or Account-.
    Example: User 1

  - `job.percent_complete` (integer)
    Completion percentage of the Job.
    Example: 50

  - `job.virtualization_tasks` (array)

  - `job.virtualization_tasks.id` (string)

  - `job.virtualization_tasks.parent_job_id` (string)

  - `job.virtualization_tasks.start_time` (string)

  - `job.virtualization_tasks.end_time` (string)

  - `job.virtualization_tasks.title` (string)

  - `job.virtualization_tasks.percent_complete` (integer)

  - `job.virtualization_tasks.events` (array)

  - `job.virtualization_tasks.events.message_details` (string)

  - `job.virtualization_tasks.status` (string)
    Enum: "PENDING", "STARTED", "TIMEDOUT", "RUNNING", "CANCELED", "FAILED", "SUSPENDED", "WAITING", "COMPLETED", "ABANDONED"

  - `job.tasks` (array)

  - `job.tasks.id` (string)

  - `job.tasks.parent_job_id` (string)

  - `job.tasks.start_time` (string)

  - `job.tasks.end_time` (string)

  - `job.tasks.title` (string)

  - `job.tasks.percent_complete` (integer)

  - `job.tasks.events` (array)

  - `job.tasks.events.message_details` (string)

  - `job.tasks.status` (string)
    Enum: "PENDING", "STARTED", "TIMEDOUT", "RUNNING", "CANCELED", "FAILED", "SUSPENDED", "WAITING", "COMPLETED", "ABANDONED"

  - `job.execution_id` (string)
    The ID of the associated masking execution, if any.

  - `vdb_id` (string)
    The ID of the provisioned vdb.