Restoring a Backup

Function

This API is used to restore backup data.

URI

POST /v3/{project_id}/backups/{backup_id}/restore

Table 1 Path Parameters

Parameter

Mandatory

Type

Description

backup_id

Yes

String

Backup ID

project_id

Yes

String

Project ID

Request Parameters

Table 2 Request header parameters

Parameter

Mandatory

Type

Description

X-Auth-Token

Yes

String

User token The token can be obtained by calling the IAM API used to obtain a user token. The value of X-Subject-Token in the response header is the user token.

Table 3 Request body parameters

Parameter

Mandatory

Type

Description

restore

Yes

BackupRestore object

Request body of restoring a backup

Table 4 BackupRestore

Parameter

Mandatory

Type

Description

mappings

No

Array of BackupRestoreServerMapping objects

Restored mapping relationship. This parameter is mandatory for VM restoration and optional for disk restoration.

power_on

No

Boolean

Whether the server is powered on after restoration. By default it is powered on after restoration.

Default: true

server_id

No

String

ID of the target VM to be restored. This parameter is mandatory for VM restoration.

volume_id

No

String

ID of the target disk to be restored. This parameter is mandatory for disk restoration.

Table 5 BackupRestoreServerMapping

Parameter

Mandatory

Type

Description

backup_id

Yes

String

Disk backup ID

volume_id

Yes

String

ID of the disk to which data is restored

Table 6 RestoreDetails

Parameter

Mandatory

Type

Description

destination_path

Yes

String

Destination path

Minimum: 1

Maximum: 255

Response Parameters

None

Example Requests

Restoring from a specified backup

POST https://{endpoint}/v3/{f841e01fd2b14e7fa41b6ae7aa6b0594}/backups/a5200268-74a5-4806-acc6-95793ab0228b/restore

{
  "restore" : {
    "mappings" : [ {
      "backup_id" : "5d822633-2bbf-4af8-a16e-5ab1c7705235",
      "volume_id" : "eccbcfdd-f843-4bbb-b2c0-a5ce861f9376"
    } ],
    "power_on" : true,
    "server_id" : "94eba8b2-acc9-4d82-badc-127144cc5526"
  }
}

Example Responses

None

Status Codes

Status Code

Description

202

Accepted

Error Codes

See Error Codes.