Basesnap API

Name: Basesnap API
Brand: Basesnap API
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For Agents

Create database snapshots, list existing snapshots, and trigger restores from a chosen snapshot ID. Useful for agents running pre-deploy backups or recovery flows.

Install Jentic One Beta

Connect the Basesnap API to your agent

Jentic One is a self-hosted execution layer for AI agents. It lets your agent call the Basesnap API, or any other public or private API you need. You set the rules, the agent never sees your credentials, and every call is logged.

Two steps, two machines. Install the instance in a safe environment, then register your agent from wherever it runs.

Step 1: Jentic One Host machine

# On the machine that will host your Jentic One instance:
curl -fsSL https://raw.githubusercontent.com/jentic/jentic-one/main/tools/install.sh | sh

Step 2: Agent machine

# On the machine where your agent runs (keep this separate from the instance):
curl -fsSL https://raw.githubusercontent.com/jentic/jentic-one/main/tools/install.sh | sh
jentic register       # connects your agent to your Jentic One instance

Jentic One is in public beta. The setup above keeps your agent separate from the instance, which is what you want before using real credentials: an agent running as the same OS user as Jentic One can read its stored keys directly. Just evaluating? A single local install is fine to start. See the secure deployment guide for the tiers.

Capabilities

What an agent can do with Basesnap API.

Capture a point-in-time database snapshot before risky migrations or deploys

List all available snapshots with their creation timestamps and identifiers

Restore a database to a chosen snapshot using its snapshot ID

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Use Cases

Patterns agents use Basesnap API for, with concrete tasks.

★ Pre-Deploy Database Checkpoint

Capture a database snapshot immediately before a release or schema migration so the team can roll back in seconds if something breaks. The Basesnap API exposes a single POST /snapshots call that returns a snapshot identifier, which the deployment pipeline can store and reference. Snapshot creation runs asynchronously and is suitable for production-sized databases.

Call POST /snapshots to create a snapshot named pre-deploy-2026-06-10 and store the returned snapshot ID for rollback

Incident Recovery Rollback

When a deploy or data corruption incident occurs, an on-call engineer or runbook agent needs to identify the most recent good snapshot and restore the database. Basesnap's GET /snapshots returns the snapshot list and POST /snapshots/{id}/restore triggers the restore. End-to-end rollback typically completes within minutes for moderate database sizes.

List snapshots via GET /snapshots, pick the latest snapshot before the incident timestamp, then call POST /snapshots/{id}/restore

Scheduled Backup Audit

Compliance and SRE teams need to verify that scheduled snapshots are actually being created and retained. The GET /snapshots endpoint returns the full snapshot list with timestamps, so an agent can audit retention policies and alert if expected snapshots are missing.

Call GET /snapshots and verify a snapshot exists for each of the last 7 daily backup windows

Agent-Driven Recovery via Jentic

AI agents handling on-call escalation can use Basesnap through Jentic to perform a full identify-and-restore loop without operator intervention. Jentic isolates the Basesnap API key in its vault and exposes the three snapshot operations as discoverable tools, so the agent can search for restore intent, load the schema, and execute.

Search Jentic for 'restore a database snapshot', load the POST /snapshots/{id}/restore schema, and execute with the chosen snapshot ID

Key Endpoints

3 endpoints — jentic publishes the only available openapi specification for basesnap api, keeping it validated and agent-ready.

METHOD

PATH

DESCRIPTION

GET

/snapshots

List all database snapshots

POST

/snapshots

Create a new database snapshot

POST

/snapshots/{id}/restore

Restore the database from a snapshot

GET

/snapshots

List all database snapshots

POST

/snapshots

Create a new database snapshot

POST

/snapshots/{id}/restore

Restore the database from a snapshot

Why Jentic?

Three things that make agents converge on Jentic-routed access.

Credential isolation

Your Basesnap API key is stored once, encrypted, by your own Jentic One instance and injected at execution time. It never enters the agent's prompt, logs, or context.

Intent-based discovery

Agents search Jentic by intent such as 'create a database snapshot' or 'restore a database', and Jentic returns the matching Basesnap operation with its input schema so the agent calls the right endpoint without browsing the reference docs.

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FAQs

Specific to using Basesnap API through Jentic.

Why is there no official OpenAPI spec for Basesnap API?

Basesnap does not publish an OpenAPI specification. Jentic generates and maintains this spec so that AI agents and developers can call Basesnap API via structured tooling. It is validated against the live API and kept up to date. Get started with Jentic One, the self-hosted execution layer.

What authentication does the Basesnap API use?

Basesnap uses an API key passed in the Authorization header. Through Jentic, the key is stored encrypted in the vault and never enters the agent's context - the agent receives a scoped token to call POST /snapshots and the other two endpoints.

Can I create a database snapshot with the Basesnap API?

Yes. Call POST /snapshots to create a new snapshot. The response returns a snapshot identifier you can later pass to POST /snapshots/{id}/restore to roll the database back to that point in time.

How do I restore a database from a snapshot through Jentic?

Search Jentic for 'restore a database snapshot', which surfaces the POST /snapshots/{id}/restore operation. Load the schema, supply the target snapshot ID, and execute. The full search-load-execute loop runs from a single Jentic SDK session.

What are the rate limits for the Basesnap API?

The OpenAPI spec does not declare explicit rate limits. Treat snapshot creation as a heavyweight operation and avoid running concurrent POST /snapshots calls against the same database - check Basesnap's account dashboard for current quotas.

Is the Basesnap API free?

Basesnap is a commercial service and pricing is set per account. The API itself does not expose billing endpoints, so check your Basesnap account for current plan limits before automating high-frequency snapshot creation.

Can I limit what my agent is allowed to do with the Basesnap API?

Yes. Because you run Jentic One yourself, your own rules decide which of the three Basesnap operations the agent may call, so you can leave listing snapshots (GET /snapshots) and creating them (POST /snapshots) as the safe default and exclude the restore operation entirely unless you add it. Since Basesnap puts the snapshot id in the URL path (POST /snapshots/{id}/restore), a rule can pin a restore to one specific snapshot rather than any arbitrary one. Your Basesnap API key stays with your own instance and is injected only at execution time, so the agent never sees it.

Basesnap API

Connect the Basesnap API to your agent

Capabilities

Start building with Basesnap API

Use Cases

Key Endpoints

Why Jentic?

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