Updated on 2026-01-08 GMT+08:00

Creating a Manual Backup

Description

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

URI

  • URI format

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

Request Parameters

Table 1 Request header parameters

Parameter

Type

IN

Mandatory

Description

X-Auth-Token

string

header

Yes

User token

Table 2 Parameter description

Parameter

Type

Mandatory

Description

backup

Object

Yes

The backup parameter objects For more information, see Table 3.

Table 3 backup field data structure description

Parameter

Type

Mandatory

Description

instance_id

String

Yes

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

String

Yes

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 (_).

description

String

No

The manual backup description.

The description must consist of a maximum of 256 characters and cannot contain the following special characters: >!<"&'=

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

Response Parameters

  • Parameter description
    Table 4 Parameter description

    Parameter

    Type

    Mandatory

    Description

    job_id

    String

    Yes

    The ID of the asynchronous manual backup task.

    backup_id

    String

    Yes

    Manual backup ID

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

Status Code

For details, see Status Code.

Error Code

For details, see Error Code.