Restoring a Backup

Function

This API is used to restore backup data.

URI

POST /v3/{project_id}/backups/{backup_id}/restore

**Table 1** Path Parameters
Parameter	Mandatory	Type	Description
backup_id	Yes	String	Backup ID. Default value: N/A
project_id	Yes	String	Project ID. Default value: N/A

Request Parameters

**Table 2** Request header parameters
Parameter	Mandatory	Type	Description
X-Auth-Token	Yes	String	User token. You can obtain it by calling the IAM API for obtaining a user token. The user token is the value of X-Subject-Token in the response header. Default value: N/A

**Table 3** Request body parameters
Parameter	Mandatory	Type	Description
restore	Yes	BackupRestore object	Request body of restoring a backup

**Table 4** BackupRestore
Parameter	Mandatory	Type	Description
mappings	No	Array of BackupRestoreServerMapping objects	Restored mapping relationship. This parameter is mandatory for VM restoration and optional for disk restoration.
power_on	No	Boolean	Whether to start the VM after the restoration. The default value is true. true: Start the VM. false: Keep the VM stopped.
server_id	No	String	ID of the VM to be restored. This parameter is mandatory for full-server restoration. Default value: N/A
volume_id	No	String	ID of the volume to be restored. This parameter is mandatory for volume restoration. Default value: N/A
resource_id	No	String	ID of the resource to be restored. It is in UUID format. You can query the resource ID based on the type of the resource to be backed up. Default value: N/A

**Table 5** BackupRestoreServerMapping
Parameter	Mandatory	Type	Description
backup_id	Yes	String	Volume backup ID. You can view the disk backup ID in the cloud server backup details on the console or obtain it by calling the API for querying a specific backup. Default value: N/A
volume_id	Yes	String	ID of the volume to be restored. Default value: N/A

**Table 6** RestoreDetails
Parameter	Mandatory	Type	Description
destination_path	Yes	String	Destination path. The value can contain a maximum of 255 characters and can contain only letters, digits, colons (:), backslashes (), and slashes (/). Default value: N/A

Response Parameters

Status code: 202

Accepted

None

Example Requests

Restoring from a specified backup

POST https://{endpoint}/v3/{f841e01fd2b14e7fa41b6ae7aa6b0594}/backups/a5200268-74a5-4806-acc6-95793ab0228b/restore

{
  "restore" : {
    "mappings" : [ {
      "backup_id" : "5d822633-2bbf-4af8-a16e-5ab1c7705235",
      "volume_id" : "eccbcfdd-f843-4bbb-b2c0-a5ce861f9376"
    } ],
    "power_on" : true,
    "server_id" : "94eba8b2-acc9-4d82-badc-127144cc5526"
  }
}