This API is used to create a manual backup.

This API supports the following instance type:

POST https://{Endpoint}/v3/{project_id}/instances/{instance_id}/backups

**Table 1** URI parameters
Parameter	Mandatory	Type	Description
project_id	Yes	String	Project ID of a user in a region. To obtain this value, see Obtaining a Project ID.
instance_id	Yes	String	Instance ID.

**Table 2** Request header parameter
Parameter	Mandatory	Type	Description
Content-Type	Yes	String	MIME type of the request body. application/json is recommended.
X-Auth-Token	Yes	String	User token.

**Table 3** Request body parameters
Parameter	Mandatory	Type	Description
name	Yes	String	Manual backup name. The name can include 4 to 64 characters and must start with a letter. It is case-sensitive and can contain only letters, digits, hyphens (-), and underscores (_).
description	Yes	String	Manual backup description. The description can include a maximum of 256 characters and cannot contain the following special characters: >!<"&'=

Status code: 202

**Table 4** Response body parameters
Parameter	Type	Description
job_id	String	Task ID.
backup_id	String	Backup ID.

URI example

POST https://{Endpoint}/v3/054e292c9880d4992f02c0196d3ea468/instances/a4d8ea2584e047439a667703c0684119in06/backups

Creating a manual backup

{ 
  "name" : "backup-4f57", 
  "description" : "manual backup" 
}

Status code: 202

Success

{ 
  "job_id" : "8061ceaf-b319-4315-9338-7f3de8e26f05", 
  "backup_id" : "646d88d0b03f4fd2ae944ae2a33bcb6ain06" 
}

Creating a Manual Backup