diff --git a/api-daemon/pvcapid/flaskapi.py b/api-daemon/pvcapid/flaskapi.py
index 60b2df8b..80c81f3e 100755
--- a/api-daemon/pvcapid/flaskapi.py
+++ b/api-daemon/pvcapid/flaskapi.py
@@ -3572,6 +3572,97 @@ class API_VM_Snapshot_Import(Resource):
 api.add_resource(API_VM_Snapshot_Import, "/vm/<vm>/snapshot/import")
 
 
+# /vm/<vm>/snapshot/receive/block
+class API_VM_Snapshot_Receive_Block(Resource):
+    @RequestParser(
+        [
+            {
+                "name": "pool",
+                "required": True,
+            },
+            {
+                "name": "volume",
+                "required": True,
+            },
+            {
+                "name": "snapshot",
+                "required": True,
+            },
+            {
+                "name": "size",
+                "required": True,
+            },
+            {
+                "name": "source_snapshot",
+                "required": False,
+            },
+        ]
+    )
+    @Authenticator
+    def post(self, vm, reqargs):
+        """
+        Receive a snapshot of a single RBD volume from another PVC cluster; may be full or incremental
+
+        NOTICE: This is an API-internal endpoint used by /vm/<vm>/snapshot/send; it should never be called by a client.
+        ---
+        tags:
+          - vm
+        parameters:
+          - in: query
+            name: pool
+            type: string
+            required: true
+            description: The name of the destination Ceph RBD data pool
+          - in: query
+            name: volume
+            type: string
+            required: true
+            description: The name of the destination Ceph RBD volume
+          - in: query
+            name: snapshot
+            type: string
+            required: true
+            description: The name of the destination Ceph RBD volume snapshot
+          - in: query
+            name: size
+            type: integer
+            required: true
+            description: The size in bytes of the Ceph RBD volume
+          - in: query
+            name: source_snapshot
+            type: string
+            required: false
+            description: The name of the destination Ceph RBD volume snapshot parent for incremental transfers
+        responses:
+          200:
+            description: OK
+            schema:
+              type: object
+              id: Message
+          400:
+            description: Execution error
+            schema:
+              type: object
+              id: Message
+          404:
+            description: Not found
+            schema:
+              type: object
+              id: Message
+        """
+        return api_helper.vm_snapshot_receive_block(
+            reqargs.get("pool"),
+            reqargs.get("volume") + "_recv",
+            reqargs.get("snapshot"),
+            int(reqargs.get("size")),
+            flask.request.stream,
+            source_snapshot=reqargs.get("source_snapshot"),
+        )
+
+
+api.add_resource(API_VM_Snapshot_Receive_Block, "/vm/<vm>/snapshot/receive/block")
+
+
 # /vm/autobackup
 class API_VM_Autobackup_Root(Resource):
     @RequestParser(
diff --git a/api-daemon/pvcapid/helper.py b/api-daemon/pvcapid/helper.py
index a9c205aa..c4fc4cb3 100755
--- a/api-daemon/pvcapid/helper.py
+++ b/api-daemon/pvcapid/helper.py
@@ -1294,6 +1294,58 @@ def vm_flush_locks(zkhandler, vm):
     return output, retcode
 
 
+def vm_snapshot_receive_block(pool, volume, snapshot, size, stream, source_snapshot=None):
+    try:
+        import rados
+        import rbd
+
+        cluster = rados.Rados(conffile='/etc/ceph/ceph.conf')
+        cluster.connect()
+        ioctx = cluster.open_ioctx(pool)
+
+        if not source_snapshot:
+            rbd_inst = rbd.RBD()
+            rbd_inst.create(ioctx, volume, size)
+
+        image = rbd.Image(ioctx, volume)
+
+        last_chunk = 0
+        chunk_size = 1024 * 1024 * 128
+
+        if source_snapshot:
+            # Receiving diff data
+            print(f"Applying diff between {source_snapshot} and {snapshot}")
+            while True:
+                chunk = stream.read(chunk_size)
+                if not chunk:
+                    break
+
+                # Extract the offset and length (8 bytes each) and the data
+                offset = int.from_bytes(chunk[:8], 'big')
+                length = int.from_bytes(chunk[8:16], 'big')
+                data = chunk[16:16 + length]
+                image.write(data, offset)
+
+            image.create_snap(snapshot)
+        else:
+            # Receiving full image
+            print(f"Importing full snapshot {snapshot}")
+            while True:
+                chunk = flask.request.stream.read(chunk_size)
+                if not chunk:
+                    break
+                image.write(chunk, last_chunk)
+                last_chunk += len(chunk)
+
+            image.create_snap(snapshot)
+
+        image.close()
+        ioctx.close()
+        cluster.shutdown()
+    except Exception as e:
+        return {"message": f"Failed to import block device: {e}"}, 400
+
+
 #
 # Network functions
 #