What is the restful way to represent a resource clone operation in the URL?

Question

I have REST API that exposes a complex large resource and I want to be able to clone this resource. Assume that the resource is exposed at /resources/{resoureId}

Answer 1

Will just put it out there, if this can be of help to anyone.
We had a similar scenario, where we were providing "clone vm" as a feature for scaling out on our IaaS offering. So if a user wanted to scale out they would have to hit POST: /vms/vm101 endpoint with request_body being

{"action": "clone", // Specifies action to take, since our users can do couple of other actions on a vm, like power_off/power_on etc.
 "body": {"name": [vm102, vm103, vm104] // Number of clones to make
          "storage": 50, ... // Optional parameters for specifying differences in specs one would want from the base virtual machine 
          }

and 3 clones of vm101 viz. vm102, vm103 and vm104 would be spinned.