Executing a Backup Policy

Function

This API is used to manually execute a backup policy and create a backup task.

URI

• URI format

  POST https://{endpoint}/v1/{project_id}/providers/{provider_id}/checkpoints

• Parameter description

  Table 1 Parameter description

  Parameter	Mandatory	Type	Description
  project_id	Yes	String	Project ID For details about how to obtain the project ID, see Obtaining a Project ID.
  provider_id	Yes	String	Backup provider ID, which specifies whether the backup object is a server or disk. This parameter has a fixed value. For CSBS, the value is fc4d5750-22e7-4798-8a46-f48f62c4c1da.

Request

• Parameter description

  Table 2 Parameter description

  Parameter	Mandatory	Type	Description
  checkpoint	Yes	checkpoint_req	For details, see the checkpoint_req field description.

• Parameter description of field checkpoint_req

  Table 3 Parameter description of field checkpoint_req

  Parameter	Mandatory	Type	Description
  parameters	Yes	checkpoint_param	Backup parameters
  plan_id	Yes	String	Backup policy ID. Refer to the backup policy ID that is returned by the API of Querying the Backup Policy List.

• Parameter description of field checkpoint_param

  Table 4 Parameter description of field checkpoint_param

  Parameter	Mandatory	Type	Description
  auto_trigger	No	Boolean	Whether automatic trigger is enabled
  resources	No	List<String>	ID list of resources to be backed up

• Example request

  POST https://{endpoint}/v1/{project_id}/providers/{provider_id}/checkpoints
  {
    "checkpoint" : {
      "plan_id" : "62171999-3df1-42f7-9513-6f9b1bea4744",
      "parameters" : {
        "auto_trigger" : false,
        "resources" : [ "7a32a8b5-7977-4e24-b5da-e0eb457db75b", "b2b433bf-7dd6-4a74-aa8f-85673dfbda48" ]
      }
    }
  }

Response

• Parameter description

  Table 5 Parameter description

  Parameter	Type	Description
  checkpoint	checkpoint_resp	See the checkpoint_resp field description.

• Parameter description of field checkpoint_resp

  Table 6 Parameter description of field checkpoint_resp

  Parameter	Type	Description
  status	String	Status. The value can be protecting, deleting, available, or error.
  created_at	String	Creation time, for example, 2016-12-06T21:20:29.898823
  id	String	Backup record ID
  resource_graph	String	Resource diagram, which displays the mapping relationship between resources and backups. If the value is null, the backup contains only the resource backup of the entire system.
  project_id	String	Project ID For details about how to obtain the project ID, see Obtaining a Project ID.
  protection_plan	plan_resp	Backup policy information
  extra_info	String	Additional information about the backup object, such as the backup creation mode

• Parameter description of field plan_resp

  Table 7 Parameter description of field plan_resp

  Parameter	Type	Description
  id	String	Backup policy ID
  name	String	Backup policy name
  resources	List<resource>	Backup object list

• Parameter description of field resource

  Table 8 Parameter description of field resource

  Parameter	Type	Description
  id	String	ID of the object to be backed up
  type	String	Entity object type of backup objects The value is fixed at OS::Nova::Server, indicating that the object type is ECSs.
  name	String	Backup object name
  extra_info	String	Additional information of the resource

• Example response

  {
    "checkpoint" : {
      "status" : "protecting",
      "created_at" : "2016-12-06T21:20:29.898823",
      "id" : "14626f11-b54a-44ea-8e69-7463e527506a",
      "resource_graph" : null,
      "project_id" : "b942cc8342734d15bcb246babb1953cf",
      "protection_plan" : {
        "id" : "6a6cda7e-7b89-4b14-8e5c-3b6821a97d2c",
        "resources" : [ {
          "type" : "OS::Nova::Server",
          "id" : "1c960fe4-e679-421a-97cd-4f7463d2344b",
          "name" : "server0",
          "extra_info": "{}"
        } ],
        "name" : "backup"
      },
      "extra_info": "{"created_by": "manual"}"
    }
  }

Status Codes

• Normal

  Status Code	Description
  200	OK

• Abnormal

  Status Code	Description
  400	Invalid request parameters.
  401	Authentication failed.
  403	No operation permission.
  404	Requested object not found.
  500	Service internal error.
  503	Service unavailable.

Error Codes

For details, see Error Codes.