Create an index from a backup
from pinecone import Pinecone
pc = Pinecone(api_key="YOUR_API_KEY")
pc.create_index_from_backup(
backup_id="a65ff585-d987-4da5-a622-72e19a6ed5f4",
name="restored-index",
tags={
"tag0": "val0",
"tag1": "val1"
},
deletion_protection="enabled"
)import { Pinecone } from '@pinecone-database/pinecone';
const pc = new Pinecone({ apiKey: 'YOUR_API_KEY' })
const response = await pc.createIndexFromBackup({
backupId: 'a65ff585-d987-4da5-a622-72e19a6ed5f4',
name: 'restored-index',
tags: {
tag0: 'val0',
tag1: 'val1'
},
deletionProtection: 'enabled'
});
console.log(response);import io.pinecone.clients.Pinecone;
import org.openapitools.db_control.client.ApiException;
import org.openapitools.db_control.client.model.*;
public class CreateIndexFromBackup {
public static void main(String[] args) throws ApiException {
Pinecone pc = new Pinecone.Builder("YOUR_API_KEY").build();
String backupID = "a65ff585-d987-4da5-a622-72e19a6ed5f4";
String indexName = "restored-index";
CreateIndexFromBackupResponse backupResponse = pc.createIndexFromBackup(backupID, indexName);
System.out.println(backupResponse);
}
}package main
import (
"context"
"encoding/json"
"fmt"
"log"
"time"
"github.com/pinecone-io/go-pinecone/v4/pinecone"
)
func prettifyStruct(obj interface{}) string {
bytes, _ := json.MarshalIndent(obj, "", " ")
return string(bytes)
}
func main() {
ctx := context.Background()
pc, err := pinecone.NewClient(pinecone.NewClientParams{
ApiKey: "YOUR_API_KEY",
})
if err != nil {
log.Fatalf("Failed to create Client: %v", err)
}
indexName := "restored-index"
restoredIndexTags := pinecone.IndexTags{"restored_on": time.Now().Format("2006-01-02 15:04")}
createIndexFromBackupResp, err := pc.CreateIndexFromBackup(ctx, &pinecone.CreateIndexFromBackupParams{
BackupId: "e12269b0-a29b-4af0-9729-c7771dec03e3",
Name: indexName,
Tags: &restoredIndexTags,
})
fmt.Printf(prettifyStruct(createIndexFromBackupResp))
}using Pinecone;
var pinecone = new PineconeClient("YOUR_API_KEY");
var response = await pinecone.Backups.CreateIndexFromBackupAsync(
"a65ff585-d987-4da5-a622-72e19a6ed5f4",
new CreateIndexFromBackupRequest
{
Name = "restored-index",
Tags = new Dictionary<string, string>
{
{ "tag0", "val0" },
{ "tag1", "val1" }
},
DeletionProtection = DeletionProtection.Enabled
}
);
Console.WriteLine(response);PINECONE_API_KEY="YOUR_API_KEY"
BACKUP_ID="a65ff585-d987-4da5-a622-72e19a6ed5f4"
curl -X POST "https://api.pinecone.io/backups/$BACKUP_ID/create-index" \
-H "Api-Key: $PINECONE_API_KEY" \
-H "X-Pinecone-Api-Version: 2025-04" \
-H 'Content-Type: application/json' \
-d '{
"name": "restored-index",
"tags": {
"tag0": "val0",
"tag1": "val1"
},
"deletion_protection": "enabled"
}'{'deletion_protection': 'enabled',
'dimension': 1024,
'embed': {'dimension': 1024,
'field_map': {'text': 'chunk_text'},
'metric': 'cosine',
'model': 'multilingual-e5-large',
'read_parameters': {'input_type': 'query', 'truncate': 'END'},
'vector_type': 'dense',
'write_parameters': {'input_type': 'passage', 'truncate': 'END'}},
'host': 'example-dense-index-python3-govk0nt.svc.aped-4627-b74a.pinecone.io',
'metric': 'cosine',
'name': 'example-dense-index-python3',
'spec': {'serverless': {'cloud': 'aws', 'region': 'us-east-1'}},
'status': {'ready': True, 'state': 'Ready'},
'tags': {'tag0': 'val0', 'tag1': 'val1'},
'vector_type': 'dense'}{
"restoreJobId": "e9ba8ff8-7948-4cfa-ba43-34227f6d30d4",
"indexId": "025117b3-e683-423c-b2d1-6d30fbe5027f"
}class CreateIndexFromBackupResponse {
restoreJobId: e9ba8ff8-7948-4cfa-ba43-34227f6d30d4
indexId: 025117b3-e683-423c-b2d1-6d30fbe5027f
additionalProperties: null
}{
"index_id": "025117b3-e683-423c-b2d1-6d30fbe5027f",
"restore_job_id": "e9ba8ff8-7948-4cfa-ba43-34227f6d30d4"
}{
"restore_job_id":"e9ba8ff8-7948-4cfa-ba43-34227f6d30d4",
"index_id":"025117b3-e683-423c-b2d1-6d30fbe5027f"
}{
"restore_job_id":"e9ba8ff8-7948-4cfa-ba43-34227f6d30d4",
"index_id":"025117b3-e683-423c-b2d1-6d30fbe5027f"
}POST /backups/{backup_id}/create-index
Parameters
Section titled “Parameters”backup_id(path, string, required) — The ID of the backup to create an index from.
Request body
Section titled “Request body”name(body, string, required) — The name of the index. Resource name must be 1-45 characters long, start and end with an alphanumeric character, and consist only of lower case alphanumeric characters or '-'.tags(body, object) — Custom user tags added to an index. Keys must be 80 characters or less. Values must be 120 characters or less. Keys must be alphanumeric, '', or '-'. Values must be alphanumeric, ';', '@', '', '-', '.', '+', or ' '. To unset a key, set the value to be an empty string.deletion_protection(body, string) — Whether deletion protection is enabled/disabled for the index.
Responses
Section titled “Responses”202— The request to create the index has been accepted.400— Bad request. The request body included invalid request parameters.401— Unauthorized. Possible causes: Invalid API key.402— Payment required. Organization is on a paid plan and is delinquent on payment.403— You've exceed your pod quota.404— Backup not found.409— Index of given name already exists.422— Unprocessable entity. The request body could not be deserialized.500— Internal server error.