1. REST API for Oracle Cloud Infrastructure Compute Classic
  2. Tasks
  3. Backup Configurations

Create a Backup Configuration

post

/backupservice/v1/configuration

This endpoint is not available on Oracle Cloud Machine.

Create a new backup configuration. Requires authorization to create backup configurations as well as appropriate authorization to create snapshots from the target volume.

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

Supported Media Types
Body ()
BackupConfiguration to create
Root Schema : CreateBackupConfigurationInput
Type: object
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  • Minimum Value: 1
    How many backups to retain
  • Description of this Backup Configuration
  • Default Value: false
    When true, backups will automatically be generated based on the interval.
  • Interval
    There are two kinds of Intervals. Each Interval has its own JSON format. Your Interval field should look like one of the following:

    • "interval":{"Hourly":{"hourlyInterval":2}}
    • {"DailyWeekly":{"daysOfWeek":["MONDAY"],"timeOfDay":"03:15","userTimeZone":"America/Los_Angeles"}}

    Days of the week is any day of the week fully capitalized (MONDAY, TUESDAY, etc). The user time zone is any IANA user timezone. For example user time zones see List of IANA time zones.

  • Pattern: (^/$|^(/[\w@\.-]+)+$)
    The multi-part name of the object. Object names can contain only alphanumeric characters, hyphens, underscores, @ and periods. Object names are case-sensitive.
  • The complete URI of the storage volume that you want to backup.
Nested Schema : Interval
Type: object
There are two kinds of Intervals. Each Interval has its own JSON format. Your Interval field should look like one of the following:

  • "interval":{"Hourly":{"hourlyInterval":2}}
  • {"DailyWeekly":{"daysOfWeek":["MONDAY"],"timeOfDay":"03:15","userTimeZone":"America/Los_Angeles"}}

Days of the week is any day of the week fully capitalized (MONDAY, TUESDAY, etc). The user time zone is any IANA user timezone. For example user time zones see List of IANA time zones.

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Response

Supported Media Types

201 Response

Successfully created backup configuration.
Body ()
Root Schema : BackupConfiguration
Type: object
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Nested Schema : Interval
Type: object
There are two kinds of Intervals. Each Interval has its own JSON format. Your Interval field should look like one of the following:

  • "interval":{"Hourly":{"hourlyInterval":2}}
  • {"DailyWeekly":{"daysOfWeek":["MONDAY"],"timeOfDay":"03:15","userTimeZone":"America/Los_Angeles"}}

Days of the week is any day of the week fully capitalized (MONDAY, TUESDAY, etc). The user time zone is any IANA user timezone. For example user time zones see List of IANA time zones.

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400 Response

Invalid backup configuration input. Volume does not exist or is not online.

401 Response

Unauthorized.

500 Response

The server encountered an error handling this request.
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Examples

cURL Command

The following example shows how to create backup configuration to schedule backup of storage volumes by submitting a POST 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 POST
     -H "Cookie: $COMPUTE_COOKIE"
     -H "Content-Type: application/oracle-compute-v3+json"
     -H "Accept: application/oracle-compute-v3+json"
     -d "@requestbody.json"
        https://api-z999.compute.us0.oraclecloud.com/backupservice/v1/configuration/

  • 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.

Example of Request Body

The following shows an example of the request body content in the requestbody.json file. This example creates a new backup configuration /Compute-acme/jack.jones@example.com/backupConfigVol1, provided that a backup configuration with the same name does not exist already. The following example shows the sample request body to create a backup configuration to backup an existing storage volume /Compute-acme/jack.jones@example.com/vol1 every hour and retain only the two most recent backup. 

{
  "volumeUri": "http://api-z999.compute.us0.oraclecloud.com/storage/volume/Compute-acme/jack.jones@example.com/vol1",
  "name": "/Compute-acme/jack.jones@example.com/backupConfigVol1",
  "enabled": false,
  "backupRetentionCount": 2,
  "interval": {
    "Hourly": {
      "hourlyInterval": 1
    }
  }
}

Example of Response Body

The following example shows the response body in JSON format.

{
  "uri": "https://api-z999.compute.us0.oraclecloud.com/backupservice/v1/configuration/Compute-acme/jack.jones@example.com/backupConfigVol1",
  "runAsUser": "/Compute-acme/jack.jones@example.com",
  "name": "/Compute-acme/jack.jones@example.com/backupConfigVol1",
  "enabled": false,
  "backupRetentionCount": 2,
  "nextScheduledRun": "2016-08-19T05:10:44.859Z",
  "interval": {
    "Hourly": {
      "hourlyInterval": 1
    }
  },
  "volumeUri": "http://api-z999.compute.us0.oraclecloud.com/storage/volume/Compute-acme/jack.jones@example.com/vol1",
  "description": null,
  "tagId": "27f57e2d-f0f6-430d-9c04-40a58d632513"
}
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