Creating a Manual Backup

Function

This API is used to create a manual backup. Before using this API:

URI

POST /v3/{project_id}/backups/create

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.

Request Parameters

Table 2 Request header parameters

Parameter

Mandatory

Type

Description

X-Auth-Token

Yes

String

User token.

X-Language

No

String

Language.

Table 3 Request body parameters

Parameter

Mandatory

Type

Description

instance_id

Yes

String

DB instance ID, which is compliant with the UUID format.

name

Yes

String

Backup name. The value 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 (_).

description

No

String

Backup description. It contains a maximum of 256 characters and cannot contain the special characters (>!<"&'=)

Response Parameters

Status code: 201

Table 4 Response body parameters

Parameter

Type

Description

backup

backup object

Backup information.

job_id

String

Task ID.

Table 5 backup

Parameter

Type

Description

id

String

Backup ID.

name

String

Backup name.

description

String

Backup description.

begin_time

String

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

Backup status. Value:

  • BUILDING: Backup in progress

  • COMPLETED: Backup completed

  • FAILED: Backup failed

  • AVAILABLE: Backup available

Valid value:

  • BUILDING

  • COMPLETED

  • FAILED

  • AVAILABLE

type

String

Backup type. Value:

manual: manual full backup

Valid value:

manual

instance_id

String

DB instance ID.

Status code: 400

Table 6 Response body parameters

Parameter

Type

Description

error_code

String

Error code.

error_msg

String

Error message.

Status code: 500

Table 7 Response body parameters

Parameter

Type

Description

error_code

String

Error code.

error_msg

String

Error message.

Example Request

Creating a Manual Backup

POST https://gaussdb-mysql.eu-de.otc.t-systems.com/v3/619d3e78f61b4be68bc5aa0b59edcf7b/backups/create
{
  "instance_id" : "07033b125fd94a8a96896f8bcfee6ddain07",
  "name" : "backup-1",
  "description": "Manual backup"
}

Example Response

Status code: 201

Success.

{
  "backup" : {
    "id" : "2f4ddb93-b901-4b08-93d8-1d2e472f30fe",
    "name" : "backup-1",
    "description": "Manual backup"
    "begin_time" : "2020-07-07T01:17:05+0800",
    "status" : "BUILDING",
    "type" : "manual",
    "instance_id" : "07033b125fd94a8a96896f8bcfee6ddain07"
  },
  "job_id" : "e0fbbfc8-1ac4-4721-b9e9-7dd685c5bdd7"
}

Status Code

For details, see Status Codes.

Error Code

For details, see Error Codes.