Delete a backup
from pinecone import Pinecone
pc = Pinecone(api_key="YOUR_API_KEY")
pc.delete_backup(backup_id="9947520e-d5a1-4418-a78d-9f464c9969da")import { Pinecone } from '@pinecone-database/pinecone';
const pc = new Pinecone({ apiKey: 'YOUR_API_KEY' })
await pc.deleteBackup('9947520e-d5a1-4418-a78d-9f464c9969da');import io.pinecone.clients.Pinecone;
import org.openapitools.db_control.client.ApiException;
import org.openapitools.db_control.client.model.*;
public class CreateBackup {
public static void main(String[] args) throws ApiException {
Pinecone pc = new Pinecone.Builder("YOUR_API_KEY").build();
pc.deleteBackup("9947520e-d5a1-4418-a78d-9f464c9969da");
}
}package main
import (
"context"
"encoding/json"
"fmt"
"log"
"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)
}
err = pc.DeleteBackup(ctx, "8c85e612-ed1c-4f97-9f8c-8194e07bcf71")
if err != nil {
log.Fatalf("Failed to delete backup: %v", err)
} else {
fmt.Println("Backup deleted successfully")
}
}using Pinecone;
var pinecone = new PineconeClient("PINECONE_API_KEY");
await pinecone.Backups.DeleteAsync("9947520e-d5a1-4418-a78d-9f464c9969da");PINECONE_API_KEY="YOUR_API_KEY"
BACKUP_ID="9947520e-d5a1-4418-a78d-9f464c9969da"
curl -X DELETE "https://api.pinecone.io/backups/$BACKUP_ID" \
-H "Api-Key: $PINECONE_API_KEY" \
-H "X-Pinecone-Api-Version: 2025-04"DELETE /backups/{backup_id}
curl --request DELETE \
--url https://api.pinecone.io/backups/{backup_id} \
--header 'Authorization: Bearer <token>'{
"error": {
"code": "QUOTA_EXCEEDED",
"message": "The index exceeds the project quota of 5 pods by 2 pods. Upgrade your account or change the project settings to increase the quota."
},
"status": 429
}Authorizations
Section titled “Authorizations”Authorization(header, string, required) — Bearer authentication header of the formBearer <token>.
Path Parameters
Section titled “Path Parameters”backup_id(path, string, required) — The ID of the backup to delete.
Response
Section titled “Response”202— The request to delete the backup has been accepted.401— Unauthorized. Possible causes: Invalid API key.404— Backup not found.412— There is a pending restore job created from this backup.500— Internal server error.