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

Deleting a Manual Backup

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

DELETE /v3/{project_id}/backups/{backup_id}

**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
backup_id	Yes	String	Definition Backup file ID. Constraints N/A Range To obtain this value, see Querying Full Backups. Default Value N/A

**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

Status code: 200

**Table 3** Response body parameters
Parameter	Type	Description
backup_id	String	Definition Backup ID. Range The value is the same as that of the input parameter.
backup_name	String	Definition Backup name. Range Backup name corresponding to the backup ID.

Status code: 400

**Table 4** Response body parameters
Parameter	Type	Description
error_code	String	Error code.
error_msg	String	Error message.

Status code: 500

**Table 5** Response body parameters
Parameter	Type	Description
error_code	String	Error code.
error_msg	String	Error message.

Deleting a manual backup

DELETE https://{endpoint}/v3/054e292c9880d4992f02c0196d3ea468/backups/1fe4feaab48f11e6654hfa163eba87e4b66

Status code: 200

Success.

{
  "backup_id" : "b1182ccdda034f2b9535f3dca5c47e71br07",
  "backup_name" : "backup-f3c1"
}

For details, see Status Codes.

For details, see Error Codes.

Parent topic: Backup Management