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Creating a Manual Backup

Function

This API is used to create a manual backup for a DB instance.

URI

• URI format

  POST https://{Endpoint}/v3/{project_id}/backups

• Parameter description

  Table 1 Parameter description

  Name	Mandatory	Description
  project_id	Yes	Specifies the project ID of a tenant in a region.

Requests

• Parameter description

  Table 2 Parameter description

  Name	Mandatory	Type	Description
  backup	Yes	Object	Specifies the backup parameter objects For more information, see Table 3.

  Table 3 backup field data structure description

  Name	Mandatory	Type	Description
  instance_id	Yes	String	Specifies the instance ID, which can be obtained by calling the API for querying instances. If you do not have an instance, you can call the API used for creating an instance.
  name	Yes	String	Specifies the manual backup name. The value must be 4 to 64 characters in length and start with a letter (from A to Z or from a to z). It is case-sensitive and can contain only letters, digits (from 0 to 9), hyphens (-), and underscores (_). CAUTION: Name of the Backup has to be unique among all other backups on Project.
  description	No	String	Specifies the manual backup description. The description must consist of a maximum of 256 characters and cannot contain the following special characters: >!<"&'=

• Example request
  POST https://dds.eu-de.otc.t-systems.com/v3/0549b4a43100d4f32f51c01c2fe4acdb/backups

  {
          "backup":{
                  "instance_id": "a89dab5e39394eccbdb77b19d57b0180in02",
                  "name": "mybackup1",
                  "description": "The first Manual backup"
          }
  }

Responses

• Parameter description

  Table 4 Parameter description

  Name	Type	Description
  job_id	String	The ID of the asynchronous manual backup task.
  backup_id	String	Manual backup ID

• Response example

  {
      "job_id": "a03b1b8a-b756-467c-8a49-38720c3d23ec",    
      "backup_id": "bf9ee62a7f7044c583c6765c916c36edbr02"
  }

Status Code

Status Code:200.

For more information, see Status Code.

Error Code

For more information, see Error Code.

Parent topic: Backup and Restoration