Updated on 2026-03-16 GMT+08:00

Creating a Manual Backup

Function

This API is used to create a manual backup. Before calling this API:

Learn how to authenticate it.
Obtain the required region and endpoint.

URI

POST /v3/{project_id}/backups/create

**Table 1** URI parameters
Parameter	Mandatory	Type	Description
project_id	Yes	String	Definition Project ID of a tenant in a region. To obtain this value, see Obtaining a Project ID. Constraints N/A Range The value contains 32 characters. Only letters and digits are allowed. Default Value N/A

Request Parameters

**Table 2** Request header parameters
Parameter	Mandatory	Type	Description
X-Auth-Token	Yes	String	Definition User token. To obtain this value, call the IAM API for obtaining a user token. The value of X-Subject-Token in the response header is the token value. Constraints N/A Range N/A Default Value N/A
X-Language	No	String	Definition Request language type. Constraints N/A Range en-us zh-cn Default Value en-us

**Table 3** Request body parameters
Parameter	Mandatory	Type	Description
instance_id	Yes	String	Definition Instance ID, which uniquely identifies an instance. Range The value contains 36 characters with a suffix of in07. Only letters and digits are allowed.
name	Yes	String	Definition Backup name. Range
description	No	String	Definition Backup description. Range The description can consist of up to 256 characters. It cannot contain carriage returns or any of the following special characters: !<"='>&

Response Parameters

Status code: 201

**Table 4** Response body parameters
Parameter	Type	Description
backup	backup object	Definition Backup information.
job_id	String	Definition Task ID. Range N/A

**Table 5** backup
Parameter	Type	Description
id	String	Definition Backup ID. Range N/A
name	String	Definition Backup name. Range The name must start with a letter and consist of 4 to 64 characters. Only letters (case-sensitive), digits, hyphens (-), and underscores (_) are allowed.
description	String	Definition Backup description. Range The description can consist of up to 256 characters. It cannot contain carriage returns or any of the following special characters: !<"='>&
begin_time	String	Definition Backup start time in the "yyyy-mm-ddThh:mm:ssZ" format, where "T" indicates the start time of the time field, and "Z" indicates the time zone offset. Range N/A
status	String	Definition Backup status. Range BUILDING: backup in progress COMPLETED: backup completed FAILED: backup failed AVAILABLE: backup available
type	String	Definition Backup type. Range manual: manual full backup
instance_id	String	Definition Instance ID. Range The value is the same as the instance ID in the request.

Status code: 400

**Table 6** Response body parameters
Parameter	Type	Description
error_code	String	Error code.
error_msg	String	Error message.

Status code: 500

**Table 7** Response body parameters
Parameter	Type	Description
error_code	String	Error code.
error_msg	String	Error message.

Example Request

Creating a manual backup

POST https://{endpoint}/v3/619d3e78f61b4be68bc5aa0b59edcf7b/backups/create
{
  "instance_id" : "07033b125fd94a8a96896f8bcfee6ddain07",
  "name" : "backup-1",
  "description": "Manual backup"
}

Example Response

Status code: 201

Success.

{
  "backup" : {
    "id" : "2f4ddb93-b901-4b08-93d8-1d2e472f30fe",
    "name" : "backup-1",
    "description": "Manual backup",
    "begin_time" : "2020-07-07T01:17:05+0800",
    "status" : "BUILDING",
    "type" : "manual",
    "instance_id" : "07033b125fd94a8a96896f8bcfee6ddain07"
  },
  "job_id" : "e0fbbfc8-1ac4-4721-b9e9-7dd685c5bdd7"
}

Status Code

For details, see Status Codes.

Error Code

For details, see Error Codes.

Parent topic: Backup Management