Querying an Automated Backup Policy

This API is used to query an automated backup policy. Before calling this API:

GET /v3/{project_id}/instances/{instance_id}/backups/policy

**Table 1** URI parameters
Parameter	Mandatory	Type	Description
project_id	Yes	String	Project ID of a tenant in a region. To obtain this value, see Obtaining a Project ID.
instance_id	Yes	String	Instance ID, which is compliant with the UUID format.

**Table 2** Request header parameters
Parameter	Mandatory	Type	Description
X-Auth-Token	Yes	String	User token. If the following response body is returned for calling the API used to obtain a user token, the request is successful. After the request is processed, the value of X-Subject-Token in the message header is the token value.
X-Language	No	String	Request language type. The default value is en-us. Value: en-us zh-cn

Status code: 200

**Table 3** Response body parameters
Parameter	Type	Description
backup_policy	BackupPolicy object	Backup policy information.

**Table 4** BackupPolicy
Parameter	Type	Description
keep_days	Integer	Backup retention days. Value: 1 to 732
start_time	String	Backup time window. Automated backups will be triggered during the backup time window. The value must be a valid value in the "hh:mm-HH:MM" format. The current time is in the UTC format.
period	String	Backup cycle configuration. Data will be automatically backed up on the selected days every week. The value is a number separated by commas (,), indicating the days of the week.
retention_num_backup_level1	Integer	Number of retained level-1 backups. This parameter is returned when level-1 backup is enabled.

Status code: 400

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

Status code: 500

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

Querying the automated backup policy of a DB instance

GET https://{endpoint}/v3/619d3e78f61b4be68bc5aa0b59edcf7b/instances/61a4ea66210545909d74a05c27a7179ein07/backups/policy

Status code: 200

Success.

{
  "backup_policy" : {
    "keep_days" : "7,",
    "start_time" : "19:00-20:00",
    "period" : "1,2",
    "retention_num_backup_level1" : 1
  }
}

For details, see Status Codes.

For details, see Error Codes.

Parent topic: Backup Management

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