Creating a Manual Backup¶

Function¶

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

Learn how to authorize and authenticate it.
Obtain the required region and endpoint.

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.

last updated: 2025-10-17 13:56 UTC - commit: 69982723bf975fb292bf35f647acbddfd33eefdb