Create a backup for an app

10/30/2023 Contributors

You can create a backup for a specific application and then use the backup to restore or clone the app.

Before you begin

You must have the ID of the app you want to back up. If needed you can use the workflow List the apps to locate the application.

1. Create a backup

Perform the following REST API call.

HTTP method	Path
POST	/accounts/{account_id}/k8s/v1/apps/{app_id}/appBackups

Additional input parameters

In addition to the parameters common with all REST API calls, the following parameters are also used in the curl examples for this step.

Parameter	Type	Required	Description
app id	Path	Yes	Identifies the application where the backup will be created.
JSON	Body	Yes	Provides the parameters for the backup. See the example below.

Parameter

Type

Required

Description

app id

Path

Yes

Identifies the application where the backup will be created.

JSON

Body

Yes

Provides the parameters for the backup. See the example below.

JSON input example

{
  "type": "application/astra-appBackup",
  "version": "1.1",
  "name": "backup-david-1"
}

Curl example: Create a backup for the app

curl --location -i --request POST 'https://astra.netapp.io/accounts/<ACCOUNT_ID>/k8s/v1/apps/<APP_ID>/appBackups' --header 'Content-Type: application/astra-appBackup+json' --header 'Accept: */*' --header 'Authorization: Bearer <API_TOKEN>' --data @JSONinput