Question

Rate limit on volume snapshot is too low

Posted on September 13, 2021
API
Asked by thatdevopsguy

If you have more than one volume and if you wish to snapshot both the volumes at the same time via API its not possible because the rate limit on snapshot is 1 every 10mins

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thatdevopsguy • September 14, 2021

Accepted Answer

If Your account is not verified then you will face such errors. This is what the DO support team informed me. I can confirm the issue is resolved now.

thatdevopsguy • September 13, 2021

doctl compute volume snapshot d1d9290f-14ab-11ec-b512-0a58ac145549 --snapshot-name myfirst

doctl compute volume snapshot d22dc31d-14ab-11ec-8d09-0a58ac1451a0 --snapshot-name mysecond
Error: POST https://api.digitalocean.com/v2/volumes/d22dc31d-14ab-11ec-8d09-0a58ac1451a0/snapshots: 429 (request "9adb282f-7eae-4bac-9dbb-c031c51adbd5") failed to create snapshot: this operation is rate-limited - one request per 10m0s