Creating a Manual Backup

Function

This API is used to create a manual backup.

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

Constraints

Microsoft SQL Server supports batch calling of this API to create manual backups for one database.

Read replicas do not support manual backup creation.
The backup name must be unique.

URI

URI format
POST https://{Endpoint}/v3/{project_id}/backups
Example
https://rds.cn-north-1.myhuaweicloud.com/v3/0483b6b16e954cb88930a360d2c4e663/backups

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
instance_id	Yes	String	Specifies the DB instance ID.
name	Yes	String	Specifies the backup name. It must be 4 to 64 characters in length and start with a letter. It is case-sensitive and can contain only letters, digits, hyphens (-), and underscores (_). The backup name must be unique.
description	No	String	Specifies the backup description. It contains a maximum of 256 characters and cannot contain the following special characters: >!<"&'=

Request example

Creating a manual backup for a MySQL or PostgreSQL DB instance:

{
	"instance_id": "d8e6ca5a624745bcb546a227aa3ae1cfin01",
	"name": "backup",
	"description": "manual backup"
}

Response

Normal response

**Table 3** Parameter description
Name	Type	Description
backup	Object	Indicates the backup information. For details, see Table 4.

**Table 4** backup field data structure description
Name	Type	Description
id	String	Indicates the backup ID.
instance_id	String	Indicates the DB instance ID.
name	String	Indicates the backup name.
description	String	Indicates the backup description.
begin_time	String	Indicates the backup start time in the "yyyy-mm-ddThh:mm:ssZ" format, where "T" indicates the start time of the time field, and "Z" indicates the time zone offset.
status	String	Indicates the backup status. Value: BUILDING: Backup in progress COMPLETED: Backup completed FAILED: Backup failed DELETING: Backup being deleted
type	String	Indicates the backup type. Value: auto: automated full backup manual: manual full backup fragment: differential full backup incremental: automated incremental backup

Example normal response

Creating a manual backup for a MySQL or PostgreSQL DB instance:

{
	"backup": {
		"id": "2f4ddb93-b901-4b08-93d8-1d2e472f30fe",
		"name": "backupDemo",
		"description": "This is a description",
		"begin_time": "2016-09-12T01:17:05",
		"status": "BUILDING",
		"type": "manual",
		"instance_id": "d8e6ca5a624745bcb546a227aa3ae1cfin01"
	}
}