Restoring Data to an Existing DB Instance

Function

This API is used to restore a database to an existing DB instance.

• Before calling an API, you need to understand the API in Authentication.
• Before calling this API, obtain the required region and endpoint.

Constraints

• This API does not support PostgreSQL instance restoration.

URI

• URI format

  POST https://{Endpoint}/v3/{project_id}/instances/recovery

• Parameter description

  Table 1 Parameter description

  Name	Mandatory	Description
  project_id	Yes	Specifies the project ID of a tenant in a region. For details about how to obtain the project ID, see Obtaining a Project ID.

Request

• Parameter description

  Table 2 Parameter description

  Name	Mandatory	Type	Description
  source	Yes	Object	Specifies the restoration information. For details, see Table 3.
  target	Yes	Object	Specifies the restoration target. For details, see Table 4.

  Table 3 source field data structure description

  Name	Mandatory	Type	Description
  instance_id	Yes	String	Specifies the DB instance ID.
  type	No	String	Specifies the restoration mode. Enumerated values include: backup: indicates using backup files for restoration. In this mode, type is not mandatory and backup_id is mandatory. timestamp: indicates the point-in-time restoration mode. In this mode, type is mandatory and restore_time is no mandatory.
  backup_id	No	String	Specifies the ID of the backup used to restore data. This parameter must be specified when the backup file is used for restoration.
  restore_time	No	Integer	Specifies the time point of data restoration in the UNIX timestamp. The unit is millisecond and the time zone is UTC.

  Table 4 target field data structure description

  Name	Mandatory	Type	Description
  instance_id	Yes	String	Specifies the ID of the DB instance which the backup will be restored to.

• Request example

  Use backup files for restoration:

  {
  	"source": {
  		"instance_id": "d8e6ca5a624745bcb546a227aa3ae1cfin01",
  		"type": "backup",
  		"backup_id": "2f4ddb93-b901-4b08-93d8-1d2e472f30fe"
  	},
  	"target": {
  		"instance_id": "d8e6ca5a624745bcb546a227aa3ae1cfin01"
  	}
  }

  Use PITR for restoration:

  {
  	"source": {
  		"instance_id": "d8e6ca5a624745bcb546a227aa3ae1cfin01",
  		"type": "timestamp",
  		"restore_time": 1532001446987
  	},
  	"target": {
  		"instance_id": "d8e6ca5a624745bcb546a227aa3ae1cfin01"
  	}
  }

Response

• Normal response

  Table 5 Parameter description

  Name	Type	Description
  job_id	String	Indicates the task ID.

• Example normal response

  {
  	"job_id": "ff80808157127d9301571bf8160c001d"
  }

• Abnormal response

  For details, see Abnormal Request Results.

Status Code

For details, see Status Codes.

Error Code

For details, see Error Codes.