# Describe a backup ```python Python theme={null} from pinecone import Pinecone pc = Pinecone(api_key="YOUR_API_KEY") backup = pc.describe_backup(backup_id="8c85e612-ed1c-4f97-9f8c-8194e07bcf71") print(backup) ``` ```javascript JavaScript theme={null} import { Pinecone } from '@pinecone-database/pinecone'; const pc = new Pinecone({ apiKey: 'YOUR_API_KEY' }) const backupDesc = await pc.describeBackup('8c85e612-ed1c-4f97-9f8c-8194e07bcf71'); console.log(backupDesc); ``` ```java Java theme={null} 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(); BackupModel backupModel = pc.describeBackup("8c85e612-ed1c-4f97-9f8c-8194e07bcf71"); System.out.println(backupModel); } } ``` ```go Go theme={null} 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) } backup, err := pc.DescribeBackup(ctx, "8c85e612-ed1c-4f97-9f8c-8194e07bcf71") if err != nil { log.Fatalf("Failed to describe backup: %v", err) } fmt.Printf(prettifyStruct(backup)) } ``` ```csharp C# theme={null} using Pinecone; var pinecone = new PineconeClient("PINECONE_API_KEY"); var backup = await pinecone.Backups.GetAsync("8c85e612-ed1c-4f97-9f8c-8194e07bcf71"); Console.WriteLine(backup); ``` ```bash curl theme={null} PINECONE_API_KEY="YOUR_API_KEY" BACKUP_ID="8c85e612-ed1c-4f97-9f8c-8194e07bcf71" curl -X GET "https://api.pinecone.io/backups/$BACKUP_ID" \ -H "Api-Key: $PINECONE_API_KEY" \ -H "X-Pinecone-Api-Version: 2025-04" \ -H "accept: application/json" ``` ```python Python theme={null} {'backup_id': '8c85e612-ed1c-4f97-9f8c-8194e07bcf71', 'cloud': 'aws', 'created_at': '2025-05-15T00:52:10.809354Z', 'description': 'Monthly backup of production index', 'dimension': 1024, 'name': 'example-backup', 'namespace_count': 3, 'record_count': 98, 'region': 'us-east-1', 'size_bytes': 1069169, 'source_index_id': 'f73b36c9-faf5-4a2c-b1d6-4013d8b1cc74', 'source_index_name': 'docs-example', 'status': 'Ready', 'tags': {}} ``` ```javascript JavaScript theme={null} { "backupId": "8c85e612-ed1c-4f97-9f8c-8194e07bcf71", "sourceIndexName": "docs-example", "sourceIndexId": "f73b36c9-faf5-4a2c-b1d6-4013d8b1cc74", "name": "example-backup", "description": "Monthly backup of production index", "status": "Ready", "cloud": "aws", "region": "us-east-1", "dimension": 1024, "metric": undefined, "recordCount": 98, "namespaceCount": 3, "sizeBytes": 1069169, "tags": {}, "createdAt": "2025-05-14T16:37:25.625540Z" } ``` ```java Java theme={null} class BackupList { data: [class BackupModel { backupId: 95707edb-e482-49cf-b5a5-312219a51a97 sourceIndexName: docs-example sourceIndexId: f73b36c9-faf5-4a2c-b1d6-4013d8b1cc74 name: example-backup description: Monthly backup of production index status: Initializing cloud: aws region: us-east-1 dimension: null metric: null recordCount: null namespaceCount: null sizeBytes: null tags: {} createdAt: 2025-05-16T19:46:26.248428Z additionalProperties: null }] pagination: null additionalProperties: null } ``` ```go Go theme={null} { "backup_id": "8c85e612-ed1c-4f97-9f8c-8194e07bcf71", "cloud": "aws", "created_at": "2025-05-15T00:52:10.809354Z", "description": "Monthly backup of production index", "dimension": 1024, "name": "example-backup", "namespace_count": 3, "record_count": 98, "region": "us-east-1", "size_bytes": 1069169, "source_index_id": "f73b36c9-faf5-4a2c-b1d6-4013d8b1cc74", "source_index_name": "docs-example", "status": "Ready", "tags": {} } ``` ```csharp C# theme={null} { "backup_id": "95707edb-e482-49cf-b5a5-312219a51a97", "source_index_name": "docs-example", "source_index_id": "f73b36c9-faf5-4a2c-b1d6-4013d8b1cc74", "name": "example-backup", "description": "Monthly backup of production index", "status": "Ready", "cloud": "aws", "region": "us-east-1", "dimension": 1024, "record_count": 97, "namespace_count": 2, "size_bytes": 1069169, "tags": {}, "created_at": "2025-05-15T00:52:10.809354Z" } ``` ```json curl theme={null} { "backup_id":"8c85e612-ed1c-4f97-9f8c-8194e07bcf71", "source_index_id":"f73b36c9-faf5-4a2c-b1d6-4013d8b1cc74", "source_index_name":"docs-example", "tags":{}, "name":"example-backup", "description":"Monthly backup of production index", "status":"Ready", "cloud":"aws", "region":"us-east-1", "dimension":1024, "record_count":98, "namespace_count":3, "size_bytes":1069169, "created_at":"2025-03-11T18:29:50.549505Z" } ``` `GET /backups/{backup_id}` :::code-group ```bash title="cURL" curl --request GET \ --url https://api.pinecone.io/backups/{backup_id} \ --header 'Authorization: Bearer ' ``` ```json title="200" { "backup_id": "670e8400-e29b-41d4-a716-446655440001", "source_index_name": "my-index", "source_index_id": "670e8400-e29b-41d4-a716-446655440000", "name": "backup-2025-02-04", "description": "Backup before bulk update.", "status": "Ready", "cloud": "aws", "region": "us-east-1", "dimension": 1536, "metric": "cosine", "record_count": 120000, "namespace_count": 3, "size_bytes": 10000000, "tags": { "tag0": "val0", "tag1": "val1" }, "created_at": "" } ``` ::: ## Authorizations - `Authorization` (header, string, required) — Bearer authentication header of the form `Bearer `. ## Path Parameters - `backup_id` (path, string, required) — The ID of the backup to describe. ## Response - `200` — Configuration information and deployment status of the backup. - `401` — Unauthorized. Possible causes: Invalid API key. - `404` — Backup not found. - `500` — Internal server error. ## Related pages - [Create a backup of an index](./database-2026-07-control-plane-create-backup.md) - [List backups for all indexes in a project](./database-2026-07-control-plane-list-project-backups.md) - [List backups for an index](./database-2026-07-control-plane-list-index-backups.md) - [Describe a backup](./database-2026-07-control-plane-describe-backup.md) - [Delete a backup](./database-2026-07-control-plane-delete-backup.md) - [Create an index from a backup](./database-2026-07-control-plane-create-index-from-backup.md) - [List restore jobs](./database-2026-07-control-plane-list-restore-jobs.md) - [Describe a restore job](./database-2026-07-control-plane-describe-restore-job.md) - [List collections](./database-2026-07-control-plane-list-collections.md) - [Create a collection](./database-2026-07-control-plane-create-collection.md) # Agent Instructions Cite this page’s canonical URL and keep its documentation version. 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