Since i`m building managed vps hosting based on linode, i`m missing some api functions that much exist and it`s easy to implement.


1. Enable backup
- How can i enable backups via api? Manually heh?

2. Make new snapshot
- When i perform major software updates, i have two options to revert if something is wrong. One if to develop revert option myself and one is to create snapshot and revert if something is wrong. Since this issue can be rare and it is much hard to develop revert options on every update and since we are paying for backups and backups have snapshot, why there is no api function?

3. Restore from backup
- related to 2)

4. List backups
- related to 2)

5. Create new linode not in [host list]
- Linode have load balancing feature for HA, but HA does not mean just software errors or similar, it`s mean hardware errors too. Currently there is no way to create two linodes via api and be sure are not on same machine/host.

6. Network usage
- I know you have removed this parameter but you still have it in your database, so why dont you pass in your linode.list()? How can i measure additional usage for my clients? There are several ways :

- Linux daemon to calculate usage
- Set alerts for over 100% usage and then manually check those linodes.
- Read from api


7. Add IP Floating
- Also important missing function for building HA apps.



Why should we make something that exist or check it manually?

I apologize that none of these options are available, save for #5. I'll be sure to pass these requests on to our team to consider being implemented.

As for #5 with Creating a new Linode not in [host list], this is done automatically. Whenever you make a new Linode, it will always place it on a host that you do not already occupy. The only time it will place it on a host that you already have another Linode on is if there are no other possible hosts that you can land on due to availability.

Please suggest this functions since they are must in case we clients want to make good services based on linode.
As for [not in host], since your internal logic works like that and is rare to happens on same host, passing "host name" on linode.details functions will help us to delete and recreate another linode in this rare situations.

How much average hosts does linode datacenter have? From my calculations based on "hostname+id" in linode details page, around 1000 on average. But this actually don`t give us answer or logic how offen can be happens since we don`t know "hosts with free slots"

+1 for enabling backups via the API. This is an operational bottleneck for us, because it depends on someone with access to the Manager.

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I can't say how many hosts we have in our data centers, not to mention how much that can fluctuate in even a short period. We're constantly expanding our efforts where needed. Passing on the host ID would be great too for the API information, especially since you can grab that information from the Linode Dashboard as it is.

Forget about "dashboard" information's, since we and i believe many api users as adeflit make automated systems, so we don`t want to manually check something.
I can even develop robot to auto login, get server html page, parse information's to get something, but this is just wrong way.

All api funtions witch i mention in this post ALREADY exist in your system, so they are developed, stable etc..
Linode just need to implement in api, witch is very easy.

I am totally agree with you Mr.Batoo and I need more details about that???

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Any news?

Current Linode API VERSION 3.3 but nothing new.

You can watch the api.spec output and the blog as easily as anybody:

https://www.linode.com/api/utility/api.spec
https://blog.linode.com/

Just because you've decided that adding the calls you want must be easy does not mean it's actually easy or that it's more valuable than other work that needs doing. You've passed along your interest to Linode; now they have to weigh the difficulty and benefits of doing this against other work.

- Les