Delete a Backup
/backupservice/v1/backup/{name}
Delete a backup and it's associated snapshot. In progress backups may not be deleted.
Prerequisite: Ensure that you have selected a replication policy for your Oracle Cloud Infrastructure Object Storage Classic instance. See Selecting a Replication Policy for Your Service Instance in Using Oracle Cloud Infrastructure Object Storage Classic.
Required Role: To complete this task, you must have the Compute_Operations
role. If this role isn't assigned to you or you're not sure, then ask your system administrator to ensure that the role is assigned to you in Oracle Cloud My Services. See Modifying User Roles in Managing and Monitoring Oracle Cloud.
Request
- application/oracle-compute-v3+json
- application/json
-
name: string
Pattern:
[(^/$|^(/[\w@\.-]+)+$)]{1,255}
Multi-part name of backup to delete
Response
- application/oracle-compute-v3+json
- application/json
202 Response
204 Response
400 Response
401 Response
404 Response
500 Response
Examples
cURL Command
The following example shows how to delete a backup, /Compute-acme/jack.jones@example.com/BACKUP-A
, by submitting a DELETE
request on the REST resource using cURL. For more information about cURL, see Use cURL.
Enter the command on a single line. Line breaks are used in this example for readability.
curl -i -X DELETE -H "Cookie: $COMPUTE_COOKIE" https://api-z999.compute.us0.oraclecloud.com/backupservice/v1/backup/Compute-acme/jack.jones@example.com/BACKUP-A
-
COMPUTE_COOKIE
is the name of the variable in which you stored the authentication cookie earlier. For information about retrieving the authentication cookie and storing it in a variable, see Authentication. -
api-z999.compute.us0.oraclecloud.com
is an example REST endpoint URL. Change this value to the REST endpoint URL of your Compute Classic site. For information about finding out REST endpoint URL for your site, see Send Requests. -
acme
andjack.jones@example.com
are example values. Replaceacme
with the identity domain ID of your Compute Classic account, andjack.jones@example.com
with your user name.
No response is returned for this request.